Baby Doll (1956)
Country: US
Technical: bw 116m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Carroll Baker
Synopsis:
A Southern rancher marries a 'child bride' but cannot consumate the union until her twentieth birthday. Meanwhile she enrages him with her eroticised 'baby doll' behaviour in front of others, and his side of the contract, that he would provide a resplendent dwelling for her to live in, is far from being realised either.
Review:
A handful of prolonged, minutely directed scenes make up this laboured Williams adaptation, distinguished by a fine performance from Wallach, but mainly notable for the censorship storm that blew up around it. The image of Baker, curled up in a cot with her thumb in her mouth, undoubtedly meant a lot less to much of innocent America than it did to the supposedly pure-minded arbiters of public decency.
Country: US
Technical: bw 116m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Carroll Baker
Synopsis:
A Southern rancher marries a 'child bride' but cannot consumate the union until her twentieth birthday. Meanwhile she enrages him with her eroticised 'baby doll' behaviour in front of others, and his side of the contract, that he would provide a resplendent dwelling for her to live in, is far from being realised either.
Review:
A handful of prolonged, minutely directed scenes make up this laboured Williams adaptation, distinguished by a fine performance from Wallach, but mainly notable for the censorship storm that blew up around it. The image of Baker, curled up in a cot with her thumb in her mouth, undoubtedly meant a lot less to much of innocent America than it did to the supposedly pure-minded arbiters of public decency.
Country: US
Technical: bw 116m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Carroll Baker
Synopsis:
A Southern rancher marries a 'child bride' but cannot consumate the union until her twentieth birthday. Meanwhile she enrages him with her eroticised 'baby doll' behaviour in front of others, and his side of the contract, that he would provide a resplendent dwelling for her to live in, is far from being realised either.
Review:
A handful of prolonged, minutely directed scenes make up this laboured Williams adaptation, distinguished by a fine performance from Wallach, but mainly notable for the censorship storm that blew up around it. The image of Baker, curled up in a cot with her thumb in her mouth, undoubtedly meant a lot less to much of innocent America than it did to the supposedly pure-minded arbiters of public decency.