Bette Davis
Mrs. Taggart
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The Anniversary: Directed by Roy Ward Baker, Alvin Rakoff. With Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley, James Cossins. Three sons who work in the family construction business help their overbearing mother celebrate her anniversary to her late husband.
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- Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Roy Ward Baker, Alvin Rakoff
- 1968-08-30
The Anniversary is a 1968 British black comedy film directed by Roy Ward Baker for Hammer Films and Seven Arts and starring Bette Davis. The screenplay, by Jimmy Sangster, was adapted from Bill MacIlwraith's 1966 play.
Though her husband has been dead for a decade, Mrs. Taggart (Bette Davis) uses her wedding anniversary as an occasion to torment her three adult sons.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Roy Ward Baker, Jimmy Sangster
The Anniversary (1968) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Though her husband has been dead for 10 years, Mrs. Taggart continues to celebrate her wedding anniversary and thus tighten her hold on her three grown sons. The family gathers for the latest annual dinner party, to which the youngest son, Tom, brings his fiancée, Shirley Blair, who is already pregnant by him.
- Roy Ward Baker, Alvin Rakoff, Bert Batt
- Bette Davis
None of her three sons have dared to cross their ruthless domineering mother but this anniversary they intend to try. With cruel and brutal twists, the family get-together becomes a social nightmare beyond endurance.
Bette Davis stars in Roy Ward Baker’s black comedy as a wealthy widow who uses the celebration of her wedding anniversary each year to put her grown-up sons in their place, with tensions coming to a head when the youngest brings his new fiancée home, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley and Elaine Taylor rounding out the cast.
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