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Harriet Craig

"What Was Harriet Craig's Lie?"

A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.

Top Cast

  • Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford

    Harriet Craig

  • Wendell Corey

    Wendell Corey

    Walter Craig

  • Lucile Watson

    Lucile Watson

    Celia Fenwick

  • Allyn Joslyn

    Allyn Joslyn

    Billy Birkmire

  • William Bishop

    William Bishop

    Wes Miller

  • K.T. Stevens

    K.T. Stevens

    Clare Raymond

  • Viola Roache

    Viola Roache

    Mrs. Harold

  • Raymond Greenleaf

    Raymond Greenleaf

    Henry Fenwick

  • Ellen Corby

    Ellen Corby

    Lottie

Overview

A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.

Rating

7.5 / 10
30 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    7 Dec 28, 2022

    An elegant, demure, Joan Crawford is mesmerising in this compact and slightly menacing drama. She is the eponymous wife of "George" (Wendell Corey), on the face of it a happily married lady whose husband keeps her in a certain style. As we discover more about her personality, however, we encounter a controlling, lying, deviously manipulative creature who arranges the lives of those around her - her husband, her cousin "Claire" (K.T. Stevens), even the family retainers find themselves pawns in her game. It all comes to head, though, when his boss decides to promote "George" to a new position in Tokyo. She is having none of that and convinces him to cancel the appointment claiming her spouse has a gambling habit that only she can control. A combination of circumstances enable him to find out about her manoeuvrings and ensures their ensuing contretemps - including a reckoning with her cousin, and the housekeeper hanging up her apron for the last time - makes for a compelling scene that challenges any love the couple ever had for the other... Vincent Sherman and George Duning's score help the tension build successfully into quite a fitting ending. It features quite a nice little cameo from Lucile Watson as his bosses wife - who appears, at once, to see though much of the charade, packs a lot into 90 minutes, and is great watch.

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