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The Great Lie (1941) | User Rating
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Running Time
1 hour, 48 minutes
Country USA
Studio Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• The Great Lie
• Far Horizon (1941)
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Genre: Drama, Tear Jerker, Love Triangle, Melodrama, Suspense, Deception, Marriage, Love
Tagline: Sometimes there's a terrible penalty for telling the truth.
Plot: Bette Davis was at the top of her game when she starred in this soap opera-like drama by director Edmund Goulding. (Goulding had already proven himself a good director for Davis with THE OLD MAID and DARK VICTORY, though legend has it they fought like crazy during filming). As Maggie Patterson, Davis is a spritely southern belle in charge of a fertile plantation, and in love with a boozy, irresponsible pilot, Peter Van Allen (George Brent). However, she's competing for his hand with a glitzy New York rival, Sandra Kovac (Mary Astor). Maggie eventually wins Peter as a husband, but Sandra winds up pregnant with his child. When his plane goes down over the Amazon and he's presumed dead, the two decide to make a deal where Sandra has the baby in secret and Maggie pretends the child is her own. Of course all bets are off when Peter suddenly shows up. The result is a classy, cocktail and conversation melodrama, made sublime by the wonderfully bitchy dueling between Davis and Astor.
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| Cast |
Bette Davis
All About Eve, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Death on the Nile |
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The Maltese Falcon, Meet Me in St. Louis, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | | Hattie McDaniel
Gone with the Wind, Song of the South, They Died with Their Boots On | Grant Mitchell
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Grapes of Wrath | Jerome Cowan
The Maltese Falcon, Miracle on 34th Street, High Sierra | |
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| Music By |
Max Steiner
Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Arsenic and Old Lace |
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