Dangerous [VHS]

Dangerous [VHS]
by Alfred E. Green

Dangerous [VHS]

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Actor: Alison Skipworth, Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, John Eldredge, Margaret Lindsay
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cinematographer: Ernest Haller
Editor: Thomas Richards
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Producer: Jack L. Warner
Writer: Laird Doyle
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 79 minutes
Release Date: 1994-12-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

VHS Movie Reviews of Dangerous [VHS]

Movie Review: No Doubt: Bette is "Dangerous"
Summary: 3 Stars

By the time that DANGEROUS was released in 1935, Bette Davis was a rising star but not yet one of the first magnitude. A year earlier, she had given a bravura performance as the slutty Mildred Rogers in OF HUMAN BONDAGE, for which she had been denied an Oscar. Even though her performance as Joyce Heath in DANGEROUS was as a morally questionable actress who would stop at nothing to succeed, Hollywood gave her a belated trophy as Best Actress. As the drunkard Heath, Miss Davis gives an over the top performance that is so one dimensional that the audience can be forgiven for overlooking her otherwise mesmerizing journey from the height of success to its nadir.

Joyce Heath is an actress who has achieved reknown only to wind up as a drunken sot when she encounters Don Bellows (Franchot Tone), who promptly and inexplicably takes her under his wing, feeds and cares for her, then falls in love with her. Heath tells him that she is "jinxed." He refuses to believe her. She fails to tell him that she has a husband (John Eldridge)whom she has abandoned for much the same reason. The plot quickly degenerates into soap and nonsense, but at the same time, Davis had the gift of making even disreputable characters like Joyce Heath watchable. The audience wonders what Franchot Tone sees in her to want to marry or what John Eldridge sees to want to reconcile with her. What emerges from DANGEROUS is the clear exposition of the dangers involved in becoming so enamored of success in one's professional life that one forfeits it in one's personal life. Eldridge, by contrast, comes off as impossibly forgiving as a saint who can forgive anything--even attempted murder--merely to cling to a vain hope of Heath's rediscovering her feelings for him. Tone, at least, learns that love has its limits. The bottom line on DANGEROUS is that it is little more than a descent into the depths of desperation, even if Bette Davis grabs our interest as she rides her self-imposed roller coaster of twisted emotions.

Movie Review: Raising a decayed spirit
Summary: 5 Stars

Saccharine melodrama in which an actress in frank process of decadence is aided by a young architect who gets she resurges fro the ashes of the forgetfulness.

But is Bette Davis who once more, established the difference to earn herself the Academy Award in 1935 as Best actress.

Movie Review: ..waiting patiently for the DVD release, whenever that may be.
Summary: 5 Stars

I adore Bette Davis' films and this was one of my personal favorites. I'm honestly a little disappointed that there is about to be a third entry in the Bette Davis Collection from Warner Brothers and Dangerous is NOT included! It should have been released on DVD long ago but for whatever reason Warner (or somebody) is dragging their feet with restoring this one.

Movie Review: fine early Bette Davis vehicle
Summary: 5 Stars

Bette Davis and Franchot Tone star in this early vehicle for Bette Davis entitled Dangerous. The plot moves along rather well even if it's a tad slow at times; and the convincing acting held my attention very well.

The action begins with Donald 'Don' Bellows (Franchot Tone) and his fianc?e Gail Armitage (Margaret Lindsay) are out on the town and by chance Don notices the has-been actress Joyce Heath (Bette Davis). Joyce has fallen from fame because of a "jinx" that has somehow become associated with anyone whose life crosses with hers. Don takes pity on Joyce because she was such a great talent in the theater and now he finds her alcoholic and practically penniless. Don sends Gail home so that he can secretly move Joyce to his country home; Don wants to help Joyce recuperate and regain her strength there. Don sincerely wants to help Joyce.

However, things begin to change. Don and Joyce fall in love; and the plot really thickens when Don breaks his engagement to Gail to marry Joyce. Don has also put up a great deal of money to get Joyce a plum role in a major play so that Joyce can regain her lost stardom and fame.

Actually, there's still much more to the plot even though you may think I've told it all. Will any of this affect Don's business plans? How will Gail react to Don's breakup with her? Will Joyce be strong enough to be a success in the play Don finances for her? Will Joyce "jinx" the play? And why does Joyce always steer Don away from the topic of marriage? Don wants to marry Joyce because he loves her; and Joyce by all accounts seems to love Don in return. Why is Joyce stalling on marriage? The answer to that question alone may surprise you.

The cinematography reflects good judgment and the choreography works well for the scene in which Don and Joyce go running in the rain back to Don's country estate.

Overall, Dangerous gave Bette Davis a fine vehicle to display her immense talent. Davis acts uncommonly well as she communicates even the most subtle of emotions with just a look from her eyes and a very slight turn of her head. Very few actresses could ever act that well. Franchot Tone portrays Don very convincingly as well; but the movie still belongs to Bette Davis.

I highly recommend this film for Bette Davis fans; and people who appreciate 1930s drama on film will like Dangerous, too.

Enjoy!

Movie Review: Oustanding
Summary: 4 Stars

I give this film 4 stars because though this is not an A-class drama, it is a beautifully done and concise piece of work with whatever shortcomings it has rescued by Bette Davis herself. She and the Irish maid are absolute scene stealers. A previous reviewer commented on how Miss Davis spent her life insisting she only won her oscar for this film because she'd been shorted the one she deserved for "of Human Bondage" the year before; I would agree this was a misconception on her part. Her perfomance of Joyce Heath is exemplary, standing on its own. Along with Katherine Hepburn and Greta Garbo, Bette Davis brought a depth to her perfomances that stood out among the other Hollywood actresses of her generation - or most Hollywood actresses since. Her genius in this film is breathtaking. Like the ending of her other Oscar-winning role, Jezebel, the conclusion of Dangerous, suggesting that this bad girl all of a sudden has become rejuvenated into a righteously selfless character is 1930's Hollywood hokey, and yet the sight of her walking up the stairs of the hospital with flowers in hand while the husband she's damaged for life smiles at her from the window of his room is enough to bring on the tears. I love it.

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