ALL THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO (1940) *** Love, honour, courage, hollow grey headed men enforcing the edicts of the god of the ruling class, lousy doctors, Halloween parties, skunks: these old movies cover a lot of ground fast. And well. Bette Davis is delightfully understated, absolutely brilliant. Charles Boyer is also very good, Barbara O'Neil is a scary weird fucking nut. Frances Farmer will get her revenge on Seattle.
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