The Hard Way 1943 Ages 15+
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When
2.30pm, Sat 27 Oct 2018 (109 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
‘After years of accepting Bette Davis’ cast-off casting offers, under-utilized leading lady Ida Lupino has her chance to dazzle as the worldly, callous creature that would help define her legacy as an on-screen performer. Her hardboiled turn as a pushy, stern ‘stage sister’ to the moderately-talented, sequin-eyed Katie (Joan Leslie) substantiated Lupino’s nuanced talents to the critical elite, earning her the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Based on a story by famed American playwright Irwin Shaw, The Hard Way features self-serving personalities who sink their heels deep into this drama’s malevolent core. Unfolding as an elongated flashback, a narrative technique considered shockingly fresh in the early 1940s, the sisters’ dead-end mining town is quickly abandoned for a co-dependent, hollow life of ever-escalating fame—achieved by any means necessary.’ – UCLA Film & Television Archive
Ages 15+
Production Credits
- Director: Vincent Sherman
- Script: Daniel Fuchs, Peter Viertel
- Producer: Jerry Wald
- Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
- Cast: Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
- Production Company: Warner Bros.
- Print Source: UCLA Film & Television Archive
- Rights: Roadshow Entertainment
- Screening Format: 35mm
- Year: 1943
- Runtime: 109 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Sound: Mono
- Colour: Black & White