Carrie
Summary:
Carrie is based on -Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat and precise screenplay by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Jennifer Jones stars as Carrie, who leaves her go-nowhere small town for the wicked metropolis of Chicago. Here she becomes the mistress of brash traveling salesman Charles Drouet (Eddie ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Laurence Olivier - (George Hurstwood)
Jennifer Jones - (Carrie Meeber)
Eddie Albert - (Charles Drouet)
Miriam Hopkins - (Julia Hurstwood)
Basil Ruysdael - (Mr. Fitzgerald)
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Review:
If Carrie is a less-than-perfect adaptation of the Theodore Dreiser novel, it's a perfectly respectable little tearjerker of a movie when taken on its own terms. Those terms largely involve accepting that the interior lives of the characters, which is what Dreiser was really concerned with, will be sacrificed for a superficial, if involvin... Continue >>
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