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Director Elia Kazan’s feature debut was also a welcomed opportunity for Joan Blondell to prove herself in a prestige picture. While she later noted that some of her best scenes as Aunt Sally, the black sheep member of the Nolan clan, were cut under pressure from censors, she steals the film whenever she’s onscreen as the family’s voice of hard-won experience.
DCP, b/w, 128 min. DIR: Elia Kazan. SCR: Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis. CAST: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Ted Donaldson.
