Product Description

Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), Spanish ( Mono ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as "a cross between Lucrezia Borgia and Peg O' My Heart". For the benefit of her wealthy husband Zachary Scott and his family, Fontaine adopts a facade of wide-eyed sweetness. Bored with her hubby, she inaugurates a romance with novelist Robert Ryan. All her carefully crafted calculations come acropper when both men discover that she's a bitch among bitches. She might have gotten away with all her machinations, but the censors said uh-uh. Originally slated for filming in 1946, with Henry Fonda scheduled to play the Robert Ryan part, Born to Bad was cancelled, then resurfaced as Bed as Roses in 1948, this time with Barbara Bel Geddes in the Fontaine role. RKO head Howard Hughes' decision to replace Bel Geddes with the more bankable Fontaine was one of the reasons that producer Dore Schary left RKO in favor of MGM. Based on Anne Parrish's novel All Kneeling, Born to be Bad is so overheated at times that it threatens to lapse into self-parody; though this never happens, the film was the basis for one of TV star Carol Burnett's funniest and most devastating movie takeoffs, Raised to be Rotten.;

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #137232 in DVD
• Formats: Import, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Features

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER

Customer Reviews

NICHOLAS RAY, OPUS 5
***1/2 1950. Based on Anne Parrish's All Kneeling and directed by Nicholas Ray. Christabel Caine Carey is an opportunist and a social climber. She seduces her cousin Donna's wealthy fiancé, marries him while also trying to keep in touch with Nick Bradley, a writer she's sexually attracted to. Firstly, it's interesting to observe the resemblance between Curtis Carey, the billionaire who likes to fly, and Howard The Aviator (Two-Disc Special Edition) Hugues, the real life owner of RKO pictures, a production company which precisely produced BORN TO BE BAD. Then, what strikes the most in this film, is the way Nicholas Ray describes the male characters. They are passive, spectators, properly manipulated by Joan Fontaine even if the painter Gobby Broome and the writer NICk bRAdleY, two cinematic brothers of the director, won't be totally fooled. They are the only ones who will understand the double face of the young woman, another familiar theme of Nicholas Ray. Recommended.

This zone 2 DVD release will attract those of you who own a multizone DVD player. The copy is average, the Spanish subtitles can't be removed and the bonus scarce.

US FORMAT PLEASE!!!!
This movie is a hilarious CAMP CLASSIC! It is one of my all time favorites! I wanted to buy it as my Christmas present to myself but would not be able to watch it in this format which sucks! It's a US film, it really must be released on an American DVD format soon!