Post by teleadm on Mar 30, 2018 15:41:32 GMT
The Anniversary 1968, directed by Roy Ward Baker, based on a play by Bill MacIlwraith and a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, starring Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley, James Cossins, Christian Roberts, Elaine Taylor and others.
Don't be fooled to think this is a horror movie just because it's Hammer film, it's a very black comedy.
Three sons who work in the family construction business help their overbearing mother celebrate her anniversary to her late husband.
Bette Davis has a field day playing the kind of bitch that she has refined for over 30 years, as a mother of three sons she is overbearing and protective, Oldest son is a cross dresser, middle son has too many kids, youngest son has a new bride that disturbes mothers anniversary day and she does everything to find a weak spot in her. It's a battle of wits, and everytime mother seems beaten she always have a new ace up her sleeve.
One character says "when it's just her and the boys, she is nearly normal".
Though the movie is a bit hampered by it's theatrical origins, it's still entertaining to see the great American icon having the time of her life and deliberatly slightly overdoing it.
Hancock, Hedley and Cossins reprised their stage roles.
I can't help translating the Swedish title of this movie: A Sweet Little Mother That Ought to be Murdered.
Don't be fooled to think this is a horror movie just because it's Hammer film, it's a very black comedy.
Three sons who work in the family construction business help their overbearing mother celebrate her anniversary to her late husband.
Bette Davis has a field day playing the kind of bitch that she has refined for over 30 years, as a mother of three sons she is overbearing and protective, Oldest son is a cross dresser, middle son has too many kids, youngest son has a new bride that disturbes mothers anniversary day and she does everything to find a weak spot in her. It's a battle of wits, and everytime mother seems beaten she always have a new ace up her sleeve.
One character says "when it's just her and the boys, she is nearly normal".
Though the movie is a bit hampered by it's theatrical origins, it's still entertaining to see the great American icon having the time of her life and deliberatly slightly overdoing it.
Hancock, Hedley and Cossins reprised their stage roles.
I can't help translating the Swedish title of this movie: A Sweet Little Mother That Ought to be Murdered.