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Name: Possessed
Released: 1947-7-26
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford, Skeets Gallagher, Frank Conroy

Possessed

UR
2h 0m
1947

83%

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Academy Award winners Clark Gable and Joan Crawford star in the romantic drama of a woman who moves to Manhattan and finds love with the man by whom she is Possessed. Cynical Marian Martin (Crawford) believes she can have a life without marriage when she moves from a small town to New York City. She meets married attorney Mark Whitney (Gable) and creates a new identity for herself as divorced woman-of-the-world Mrs. Moreland, living in an apartment paid for by Whitney. But when Whitney runs for governor and a reporter uncovers the story of the affair, Martin must choose between her carefree life and marriage with the man she loves.

Director:

Clarence Brown

Writer:

Lenore J. Coffee

Cast:

Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford, Skeets Gallagher, Frank Conroy, Marjorie White, John Miljan, Clara Blandick

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

83%

Reviews

America Magazine

Moira Walsh

The end result is that a potentially moving and illuminating inquiry into the workings of an unbalanced mind emerges as a jumble of contradictory scenes, many engrossing as individual units but lacking cohesion.

...a portrait of a woman for whom logic and reason has washed away, lost in a spreading ocean of mental illness.

It required great courage for Joan Crawford to play it and for Warner Brothers to produce it. The screen's never exhibited so ruthless a study of an undisciplined mind at work.

October 21, 2020

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Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Josephine O'Neill

Possessed faintly echoes Lost Weekend, Seventh Veil - and has one camera shot straight from Stairway to Heaven. It is, however, a powerful and effective document - from which the susceptible will totter.

The weaknesses in this unusual movie do not greatly matter beside the fact that a lot of people who have a lot to give are giving it all they've got.

March 2, 2018

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