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Mourning Becomes Electra

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Mourning Becomes Electra
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2hrs 53min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1947
Director:
Dudley Nichols
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Starring:
Sara Allgood, Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave  ...more
Synopsis: Rosalind Russell stars in this marathon adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play. The O'Neill original transposed Euripides' Agamemnon/Clytemnestra legend to post-Civil War New England. Russell plays the daughter of a returning war hero (Raymond Massey), who comes home to find his wife (Katina Paxinou) in the arms of a younger man. The wife murders the husband, leaving it to her grown children--Russell and Michael Redgrave--to exact vengeance. This morbid plotline climaxes with Russell's descent into ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Mourning Becomes Electra is an unwieldy, stagey, occasionally messy but ultimately fascinating and unforgettable motion picture experience. Legitimately criticized both for being too long and for cutting out too much of the mammoth Eugene O'Neill play upon which it is based, Mourning is one of those films that impresses despite its considerable flaws. Many viewers will find it stifling, for director ... Full Review
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Sara Allgood
Landlady
Rosalind Russell
Lavinia Mannon
Michael Redgrave
Orin Mannon
Lee Baker
Reverend Hill
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