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Possessed
Directed by
Curtis Bernhardt
Approved
1947
1h 48m
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7.1
83%
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After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Cast of Possessed
Joan Crawford
Louise Howell
Van Heflin
David Sutton
Raymond Massey
Dean Graham
Geraldine Brooks
Carol Graham
Stanley Ridges
Dr. Harvey Willard
John Ridgely
Harker
Moroni Olsen
Dr. Ames
Peter Miles
Wynn Graham (as Gerald Perreau)
Erskine Sanford
Dr. Max Sherman
Jakob Gimpel
Pianist
Isabel Withers
Nurse Rosen
Lisa Golm
Elsie
Douglas Kennedy
Asst. District Attorney
Monte Blue
Norris
Don McGuire
Dr. Craig
Rory Mallinson
Coroner's Asst.
Clifton Young
Interne
Griff Barnett
Coroner
John Alban
Concert Spectator (uncredited)
Richard Bartell
Man in Café (uncredited)
Mary Bayless
Concert Spectator (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Concert Spectator (uncredited)
William A. Boardway
Concert Spectator (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
Man on Church Steps (uncredited)
Nana Bryant
Pauline Graham (uncredited)
Wheaton Chambers
Waiter (uncredited)
Tristram Coffin
Tom, Concert Spectator (uncredited)
James Conaty
Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Nell Craig
Dr. Ames' Nurse (uncredited)
Bunty Cutler
Nurse (uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Harry Denny
Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
Cable Car Motorman (uncredited)
Creighton Hale
Secretary at Inquest (uncredited)
Jane Harker
First College Girl (uncredited)
Eddie Hart
Bartender (uncredited)
Paul Kruger
Man in Hospital Corridor (uncredited)
Joseph La Cava
Concert Spectator (uncredited)
Perk Lazelle
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Peggy Leon
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Max Linder
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Robert Lowell
Face (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
Café Proprietor (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
Butler (uncredited)
Charles Meakin
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Martha Montgomery
Second College Girl (uncredited)
Jack Mower
Man (uncredited)
Sarah Padden
Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)
Louis Payne
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Rose Plumer
Woman in Café (uncredited)
Alexander Pollard
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Jack Richardson
Concertgoer (uncredited)
Suzanne Ridgway
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Loretta Russell
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Henry Sylvester
Dean's Secretary (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Man in Café (uncredited)
Richard Walsh
Face (uncredited)
Eric Wilton
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Curtis Bernhardt
Director
Silvia Richards
Writer
Ranald MacDougall
Writer
Rita Weiman
Writer
Jerry Wald
Producer
Possessed Ratings & Reviews
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Misdiagnosed in some circles as a film noir, this is actually a full-blooded melodrama in line with many other Crawford flicks.
America Magazine
Moira Walsh
The end result is that a potentially moving and illuminating inquiry into the workings of an unbalanced mind emerges as a jumble of contradictory scenes, many engrossing as individual units but lacking cohesion.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...a portrait of a woman for whom logic and reason has washed away, lost in a spreading ocean of mental illness.
Esquire Magazine
Jack Moffitt
It required great courage for Joan Crawford to play it and for Warner Brothers to produce it. The screen's never exhibited so ruthless a study of an undisciplined mind at work.
TIME Magazine
James Agee
The weaknesses in this unusual movie do not greatly matter beside the fact that a lot of people who have a lot to give are giving it all they've got.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
It's a role that Crawford was born to play, but ultimately the film is too campy to be memorable.
Slant Magazine
Dan Callahan
Possessed does have a few very good insights into the self-abasing aggressiveness of unrequited love.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Too heavy with German stimmung.
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