Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

brendanchenowith This comes across as one of the most unintentionally funny movies I've seen in years. However, I wouldn't take this as a bad straight drama, I think it's over the top melodrama, a biting satire on the issue of who really wears the pants in the marriage. Whether or not Joan Crawford lay siege on the set is anyone's guess. I wasn't around then and shouldn't speculate. However, her character does so on the house and in the lives of everyone who dares cross her path - from her husband's longtime housekeeper to his best friend, even to the little boy next door. The claws are sharpened and are not about to retract. I shouldn't say any more about this movie except to say it had me cringing and laughing from the opening credits. I could almost hear the clanging of jail cell doors when the opening title sequence segues to a shot of the Craig house. Feeling lonely? You won't after you see this movie.

Robert J. Maxwell What a movie, starring Joan Crawford at her most imperious. She demands everything in her house, including her servants, her relatives, and her good-natured husband, Wendell Corey, who barely escapes becoming Richard Cory, be exactly the way she wants it. Crawford is She Who Must Be Obeyed. She's devious. She lies to everyone shamelessly, blasphemously. She browbeats subordinates. She's as convincing as a psychopath. I would have laughed all the way through but my mirth was subdued by the activation of latent memories of my own marriage. Crawford is perfect in the part. She was at an age at which she was given dark eyebrows the width of a highway dividing line and a severe hair do that brought out the chrome steel of her unforgiving features. It's her best performance, although not in the way she or director Vincent Sherman intended.I wonder if it would ever have been made if "Leave Her To Heaven", a much more subtle film, hadn't been such a success. And I think Crawford's performance here may have been the dam that begat "Mommie Dearest." In these kinds of movies, Crawford was always either the victim of spite and contempt, as in "Mildred Pierce", or the purveyor of it. She purveys it magnificently.

jjnxn-1 Classic Crawford! Even more than Queen Bee this is the Joan Crawford of drag queen legend. With her slash of a mouth, obviously red even in black and white, mannish haircut and sharply tailored clothes she is the essence of the latter career Crawford ball breaker. Actually she's such an obvious coruscating bitch from the get go it's hard to believe it takes so long for many of those around her to realize her true nature. A remake of the successful 30's film Craig's Wife with Rosalind Russell Joan takes the part of the material monster between her teeth and runs with it. Where Roz was tough and brittle in the original there was an underlying sense of vulnerability. Joan will have none of that, even in her big revelation scene near the end with her defenses down she still seems made of steel and her heart enameled over. Not to say she isn't entertaining for she surely is but it's a diamond hard portrayal of someone that you would never want to met but probably have. The rest of the cast doesn't stand much of a chance when Joan grabs center stage but Lucile Watson breezes in for two wonderful but short scenes as the boss's wife and lights up the screen with some much welcomed warmth and humor. Viola Roache also gets her moment when she finally gets to tell off the ice cold Harriet.

BumpyRide Perhaps one of Joan's last great dramas that had the production values, a good script and fabulous costuming; Joan digs her teeth into Harriet making her a very scheming, perhaps mentally disturbed woman. Turning in a great performance as the brittle Martha Stewart of the 1950's, Joan makes Harriet Craig a stand out movie just as she did with Mildred Peirce, showing what she can do with good material. Wendell Corey, at first seemingly miscast, does embody the role of the "Happy go Lucky" nice guy that the part calls for. Not realizing how calculating Harriet can be, she thwarts her cousin's love life, alienates Walter from his friends from his bachelor days, until finally interfering is her husband's business affairs that would take him to Japan, Walter finally see's her for the fist time. As delicate as her china service, Harriet needs everything to be perfect and in her eyes, change is a very bad thing. She cannot be left alone and will not be ignored. She's as antiseptic as her polished kitchen floor, and just as cold one.