"Dark Triumph"

Roberto 2022-05-06 06:01:08

A good love movie, selected by AFI's "A Hundred Years of Emotional Movies" and "A Hundred Years of Inspirational Movies".

The progress of the plot is very good, and the coming and going of the characters is also very natural. But everything comes from the performance of Bette Davis, she is really the perfect example of the combination of rigidity and softness among actresses.

It is a pity that the mainstream Hollywood will no longer produce a film for first-line actresses in this way, and it also indirectly shows the obvious decline in the status of female stars.

2007-12-01

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Dark Victory quotes

  • Judith: Excuse me, kids, I've won a prize.

  • [first lines]

    Michael O'Leary: [on the phone] Hello there. Is this the house? I've been trying to get you.

    Miss Wainwright: Michael, do you realize it's 5:30 in the morning?

    Lucy - a Servant: Who is it, Agatha?

    Miss Wainwright: [to Lucy] That Michael.

    [agitatedly to Michael as a different phone line rings]

    Miss Wainwright: We had a party last night and the last guest hasn't driven out of the driveway yet.

    Lucy - a Servant: [answering the other ringing line] Hello, kitchen. Lucy speaking... Yes, Miss Ann.

    Ann King: [irritatedly in bed] What's that racket? The telephone's been ringing all over the house... I'll talk to him.

    [picks up the other phone]

    Ann King: Michael, what do you mean at this unholy hour of the morning?

    Michael O'Leary: Oh, well good morning, Miss Ann. Cheerful morning now isn't it? I was wondering if I might talk to Miss Judith.

    Ann King: No you may certainly might not! She hasn't had two hours of sleep yet, I wouldn't disturb her for the world... oh...

    [obviously gives in, and the scene fades to Judith waking up in bed to answer her ringing phone with Michael on the line]

    Judith: This is Miss Judith Traherne of the sleepy Trahernes.