Bette Davis,
George Brent,
Humphrey Bogart,
Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Ronald Reagan
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a very wealthy Long Island heiress whose life is a constant whirl of cocktai... read more
DVD Release Date: September 23, 1997
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September 20, 2010This is a good movie, with good actors, and a good story. It's a dramatic and exciting thriller. I saw it a while ago, but I remember it was good.
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March 28, 2010"I think I'll have a large order of PROGNOSIS NEGATIVE."
Bette Davis has a brain tumor and about 10 months to live. A classic that's replete with melodrama and old fashioned sentimentality. -
December 27, 2008Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is rich and young, but also has been having dizzy/ fainting spells. She is all but dragged to the local brain surgeon, Dr. Frederick "the Animal" Steele (Brent) who tells her he needs to pop her melon open for a look-see. He goes in there, takes ca... read more
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March 19, 2009Is there a bad Bette Davis movie? If so, I haven't found it yet. This is one of my favorites.
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August 6, 2009This is certainly one of Bette Davis' best roles (as well as one of her personal favorites). Great story, wonderfully acted by all with an awesome cast. It does tend to lean toward melodrama a bit too much, but that's also part of the films charm.
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June 11, 2009Bette in her prime. A touching and tragic story about a woman who finds her true love -and that she has a fatal brain tumor at the same time. An interesting character role played by Humphrey Bogart.
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April 8, 2008I loved this movie! I had to watch the whole thing! A Bette Davis movie that you should not miss in my opinion!
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November 15, 2007another of my ultimate favourites. funny to see ronald reagan in it, hamming it up. and humphry bogart as an irish stable boy. but i think this is a fine preformance from bette davis. fine, indeed!
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September 26, 2007This one was Bette's personal favorite performance. My only dislike is Bogart's terrible Irish dialect.
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July 5, 2007Next to Now, Voyager one of my favorite Bette Davis movies. And didn't even know Bogie was in it til I saw it..so that was a nice surprise. Great story, great acting. Loved it.
Critic Reviews
April 30, 2007
Emanuel Levy, Variety
December 22, 2010
Nell Minow, Common Sense Media
Bette Davis loses her sight, and we gain a classic. Full Review
September 6, 2009
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
Bette Davis's frisky sprint sets the pace Full Review
April 27, 2009
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
Naught but a torrid melodrama, but oh! what a humdinger of a melodrama it is! It's films like this that give trash a good name. Full Review
April 9, 2008
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A classic women's pic that strings together a collection of syrupy clichés that can make a real man double up in pain. Full Review
February 21, 2006
Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
It's horribly dated, playing today like some weird, contrived burlesque of common sense. Full Review
July 7, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
One of Bette Davis' best acted, most enjoyable melodrama, in which she gloriously plays a dying blind woman. Full Review
June 28, 2005
Keith Uhlich, Slant Magazine
Even by the standards of a typical Bette Davis melodrama Dark Victory is an embarrassment of riches. Full Review
June 1, 2005
Chris Barsanti, Filmcritic.com
What happens when a three-hankie picture just isn't that sad? You get Dark Victory. Full Review
August 12, 2004
Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
Of interest to both Goulding and Davis fans...Dark Victory catches both of them operating at their best while also learning new tricks from each other. Full Review
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