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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:16
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Bette Davis plays Charlotte Hollis, a hermetic spinster haunted by memories of her murdered fiancé. Charlotte, whose only social contact is with her maid, Velma (Agnes Moorehead), is crushed to... Bette Davis plays Charlotte Hollis, a hermetic spinster haunted by memories of her murdered fiancé. Charlotte, whose only social contact is with her maid, Velma (Agnes Moorehead), is crushed to learn that the state wants to tear down her mansion and put up a highway in its place. She calls on her cousin Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) for help, but Miriam fails to offer any assistance other than bringing in the family physician (Joseph Cotten) to have her troubled relative committed. As the nightmares of her fiancé continue to haunt her, Charlotte ends up fighting not only for the Hollis estate but for her sanity as well. Director Robert Aldrich resumes the electric collaboration with Davis begun in the terrifying smash hit WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? Davis heads up the stellar cast (which includes Bruce Dern and George Kennedy in small, early roles and Mary Astor in her last film appearance) with a performance that radiates desperation, entrapment, and inevitable collapse. HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE provides a chilling investigation of a heartbreakingly demented mind. [More]
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor, Bruce Dern, Victor Buono, William Campbell, Cecil Kellaway, Wesley Addy, George Kennedy
Director: Robert Aldrich
Director: Robert Aldrich
Screenwriter: Henry Farrell, Lukas Heller
Producer: Robert Aldrich
Composer: Frank DeVol
Reviews for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Davis' near-crazed performance being over-the-top but satisfying in a campy way.
Director Aldrich's work on Baby Jane was already a study in hysteria, and his style for Charlotte is, if anything, even more ornate.
This film is bonkers ... heady Southern Gothic decadence, histrionics from just about everyone involved, and severed body parts that pop up at the most inopportune times.
Smothered in Spanish moss, creakily derivative of Baby Jane, this one proves you can't borrow from the same well twice.
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