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Beyond the Forest is a 1949 American film noir starring Bette Davis as a dissatisfied wife who has an affair and kills a man. The film was directed by King Vidor and marked Davis's last contract with Warner Brothers.
Beyond the Forest: Directed by King Vidor. With Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman. Resentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.
- (2.8K)
- Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
- King Vidor
- 1949-10-21
Beyond the Forest. The wife (Bette Davis) of a Wisconsin doctor (Joseph Cotten) kills a witness to her affair with an influential man (David Brian) from Chicago.
- (5)
- Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian
- King Vidor
- Drama
A melodramatic and controversial film about a dissatisfied housewife who schemes and murders to escape her small-town life. The film was condemned by the censors and the National League of Decency for its sordid story and immoral themes.
Bette Davis stars as Rosa, a selfish wife who plots to kill her husband and marry a rich man. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, and read the novel and screenplay details on The Movie Database.
In the mill town of Loyalton, Wisconsin, Rosa Moline, whose husband Lewis is the town's doctor, is on trial for the murder of Moose Lawson, caretaker of a nearby hunting lodge owned by wealthy Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer. On the stand, Rosa swears that the death was an accident: Five months earlier, Lewis, Rosa and Moose travel to the ...
A film noir starring Bette Davis as a selfish wife who murders her husband for a wealthy lover. See the cast, crew, genres, ratings and reviews of this classic movie on Letterboxd.
