... with a girl who looks like Joan Crawford. It is morning time. She is waiting for the tram (cable-car) --- a street in L.A. The cable-car stops, the conducter looks at her. "David?" she asks. "There aint no David..." She moves to the church. Christians are leaving the church.. "David?" "My name isn't David" a man with a hat answers. And so on. She looks like Joan Crawford, but it cannot be. She looks like a drunk. She moves to a coffe-shop where she faints. In the hospital she is surrounded by doctors and nurses. One nurse wheels in some water. "No water!" the girl says "Water dark and cold." The camera moves into the huge waterglas and the water turns BLACK... Now we are at a beautiful lake with a huge house but dark and gothic like in a Hitchcock-movie ... and now the story begins... Still frightening ??!
So what is the movie's name ?!?!
2006-10-10 00:56:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
It is Joan Crawford and the movie is Possessed
Joan Crawford plays a woman who develops schizophrenia. High on melodrama, low on realism. But might well keep you on the edge of your seat. She is first found in a confused state in the street and taken to a mental hospital try to find out who she is. The story is told in flashbacks and it is revealed she was nurse to a disabled woman. Though in love with an architect (Heflin) her love isn't reciprocated and she marries her employer (Massey) after the suicide of his wife. But Heflin falls in love with her step daughter and this sends Crawford over the edge into schizophrenia. ************************************************************ Joan Crawford wanders around asking for David, when she collapses she's taken to hospital. then to the psychopathic dept and diagnosed as in a catatonic stupor. The doctor while preaching the ills of civilisation says she has mutism. He gives her an injection and she starts talking. Then it's flashback time. J.C. works looking after a woman who is sick. She's obsessed with an engineer (Van Heflin) who cruelly won't have anything to do with her. From the way she carries on one isn't surprised. Then the woman she is looking after drowns herself (though there's some doubt). The coroner's hearing takes place in the living room. On the rebound from Heflin she marries the woman's husband, Raymond Massey. Interestingly she gets married in an all-black costume. But things are to get worse. Van Heflin courts her stepdaughter and soon she's tottering towards a nervous breakdown. In one sequence she admits to killing the wife and the daughter but this turns out to be an illusion. A lot of jargon is spouted by doctors. She's diagnosed as having neurosthenia and it is suggested she has schizophrenia. But you'll get no medical lessons here her state of mind is simply a foundation for high melodrama.
2006-10-10 01:31:46 · answer #1 · answered by jsweit8573 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The name of the movie is "Possessed", and that is Joan Crawford! What made you think it wasn't? Nobody else looks like Joan !! Yeah, creepy movie!!
2006-10-10 02:34:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
confident i'm the third to declare "Imitation of existence". There are 2 variations: Thirties with Claudette Cobert and the Fifties with Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, Juanita Moore, Susan Kohn, and Troy Donahue (cameo visual charm).
2016-10-19 03:23:19 · answer #3 · answered by trowell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does the lady think she has a heart problem and thinks she overhears her own murder being planned by her husband? Is the girl Barbara Stanwick?
2006-10-10 01:07:06 · answer #4 · answered by BONNI 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋