Beyond the Forest
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Directed by | King Vidor |
Produced by | Henry Blanke |
Written by | Stuart D. Engstrand (novel) Lenore J. Coffee |
Starring | Bette Davis Joseph Cotten |
Music by | Max Steiner |
Cinematography | Robert Burks |
Editing by | Rudi Fehr |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date(s) | 21 October, 1949 |
Running time | 97 min. |
Country | U.S.A. |
Language | English |
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Beyond the Forest (1949) is a Warner Brothers film noir directed by King Vidor, produced by Henry Blanke with Jack L. Warner as executive producer from a screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee based on a novel by Stuart Engstrand.
The film stars Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Minor Watson, Dona Drake, and Regis Toomey.
It contains the line, "What a dump!", spoken by Davis, made famous by being the first line in Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962).
The film marks Davis' last appearance as a contract actress for Warner, after eighteen years with the studio.
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