Bette Davis
Rosa Moline
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Beyond the Forest is a 1949 American film noir directed by King Vidor, and featuring Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, and Ruth Roman. The screenplay is written by Lenore Coffee based on a novel by Stuart Engstrand. The film marks Davis's last appearance as a contract actress for Warner, after eighteen years with the studio.
A bored housewife schemes to run away with a rich man, but faces tragic consequences in this drama based on Flaubert's Madame Bovary. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this film.
- (2.8K)
- Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
- King Vidor
- 1949-10-21
A vicious and bored housewife (Bette Davis) schemes to murder her husband and escape to Chicago in this rural noir. The film exposes the myths and frustrations of American normality and the dark side of noir melodrama.
A film noir drama starring Bette Davis as a murderous wife in Wisconsin. Based on a novel by Stuart Engstrand, directed by King Vidor and released by Warner Bros. in 1949.
- King Vidor, Al Alleborn, Oren Haglund
- Bette Davis
Beyond the Forest. The wife (Bette Davis) of a Wisconsin doctor (Joseph Cotten) kills a witness to her affair with an influential man (David Brian) from Chicago.
- (18)
- King Vidor
- Drama
- Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian
Details. Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their bills so she can visit Chicago; her husband's patience is also tried: he tells her to go and never come back.
A melodramatic and controversial film about a dissatisfied housewife who schemes and murders to escape her small-town life. The film was condemned by the censors and the National League of Decency for its sordid story and immoral themes.
