Baby Doll (Twenty-Seven Wagon Loads of Cotton) (1956)

Films Condemned by the Legion of Decency (75 movies items)

"Elia Kazan adaption of a Tennessee Williams screenplay. The story of a voluptuous but virginal child bride (Carroll Baker) caught between her husband (Karl Malden) and his devious business rival, Silva Vacarro (Eli Wallach). Time Magazine called the film "just about the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited." After the Legion of Decency began boycotting the movie - Cardinal Francis Spellman having declared it "evil in concept" and "certain to exert an immo"

Karl Malden - Movies I've Viewed (21 person items)

" Carroll Baker and ... ... and Eli Wallach"

Watched in 2021: Movies (152 movies items)

" Director: Elia Kazan His 12th Movie. My 8th movie watched from the director. This is so Tennessee Williams. The dialogue, the characters, the innate feeling of depression. He has perfected such a story. It's a different route for Kazan but he helms it successfully, directing the three leads to be characters and performances rarely seen by 1956. Some of the editing choices are questionable and the cinematography is too average to really consider this high cinema. I would rank it in "

Terrible Taste (118 movies items)

" This film has most everything I like and present it in such a unique way. First of all the whole waiting to break the girl's virginity 'thing' is so hot and perverse at the same time but then this dark villain comes along, this foreigner who threatens to taste the forbidden fruit before the gardener who has looked after the green tree until it is just ripe. Damn good. "

Elia Kazan’s Movies I Have Watched (12 person items)

"A Eli Wallach and Carroll Baker"

Films Watched in 2019 (328 movies items)

"28.2 A tease and a devilish villain, I like a lot. "

Obscure Gems (16 movies items)

"Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan! Even with all of that, add in Eli Wallach, Carroll Baker, and Karl Malden. Supurb!"

Mildred Dunnock Best Movies (17 person items)

" Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Mildred Dunnock and Eli Wallach Mildred Dunnock, Eli Wallach and Carroll Baker"

Stairs Scenes - Movies (50 movies items)

" Carroll Baker"

Music Box - Movies (50 movies items)

" Carroll Baker"

Voyeurism - Movies (19 movies items)

" Karl Malden and Carroll Baker "