Craig’s Wife (1936)

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Country: USA
Genres: Drama
Release: 1936-09-25
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Writers: Mary C. McCall Jr. , George Kelly
Language: English
Stars: Rosalind Russell , John Boles , Billie Burke , Jane Darwell (1879–1967) , Dorothy Wilson , Alma Kruger , Thomas Mitchell , Raymond Walburn , Elisabeth Risdon , Robert Allen
Runtime: 73 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Beräknade fruar (Sweden) , Craig's Wife (United States of America) , L'obsession de Madame Craig (France, French Republic) , Craig's Wife (United Kingdom) , De vrouw des huizes (Netherlands the) , クレイグの妻 (Japan) , Egoísmo de Mulher (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Craig's Wife , Jeg, Craigs hustru (Denmark) , La moglie di Craig (Italy) , La mujer sin alma (Spain) , L'obsession de Madame Craig (Belgium) , Mulher Sem Alma (Brazil) , Жена Крейга
Plot: In Rye, New York, wealthy Walter Craig loves his wife, Harriet Craig. Conversely, Harriet, unaware to Walter, married him solely for independence, she believing that love in the romantic sense only complicating marriage. She focuses all of her energies on ensuring that the house in which they live is maintained to her standards, where everything and everyone has their proper place, leading to the household domestics, who do what they're told regardless, having a sense of contempt for her under their breath. To Harriet, Walter is purely a means to the end of that perfect house. Without Walter having realized it, Harriet, as was her want, has isolated them in their house, his friends who have slowly distanced themselves from him in not wanting to deal with her. Besides the domestics, the only person allowed in the house is Walter's maternal Aunt Ellen, who lives with them in she being his protector against Harriet, unlike Walter's belief that he is taking care of her. Harriet wants the respect of the neighbors, who she wants only to imagine the perfection that lies behind the closed and locked doors to them. A series of events including with her hospitalized sister in Albany and her sister's niece Ethel Landreth, and with Walter's troubled friend Fergus Passmore leads to Harriet getting what she outwardly wants without she realizing that it may not be what she really wants until it's too late.
IMDB:tt0027474