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Product Description ------------------- Dead Ringer (DVD) What happened to Bette Davis after What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Her career was reborn. Warner Bros. encored it with another vehicle filled with Baby Jane-like bite and menace: Dead Ringer, stylishly directed by the lady’s Now, Voyager costar Paul Henreid. Davis plays estranged identical twins. Unmarried Edith has no money, no future. Widow Margaret has fabulous wealth – all because of marriage to the man she stole from Edith years ago. Out of long-festering revenge, Edith kills Margaret and takes her place. But new friends and surroundings, a snoopy cop (Karl Malden) who was Edith’s beau and the arrival of Margaret’s secret lover (Peter Lawford) may expose her masquerade. ]]> .com ---- Hot on the heels of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/0790732246/%24%7B0%7D ), Bette Davis slipped neatly into another juicy thriller. This time, instead of co-starring with Joan Crawford, she got to play site... herself. Dead Ringer casts Davis as a wealthy (and nasty) widow, and also as her slatternly (but good) twin sister, long estranged. When the poor sister discovers the depths of her sib's evil, she takes a dramatic step that will test her skills as a thespian. Davis's old leading man, Paul Henreid, directs this material at a leaden pace, but Davis gives such a brazen performance, she pulls it through. Plus, the moments of high t (a red-hot poker rammed into a hand, a lethal dog attack) are easily savored. Peter Lawford's seedy playboy and Karl Malden's stolid cop fill out the key supporting roles--not that anybody else matters. This is Bette Davis's world; everybody else is just visiting. --Robert Horton P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Set Contains: ------------- The idea of including a commentary track featuring expert Bette Davis impersonator and camp maestro Charles Busch is promising, but results in surprisingly subdued byplay with Davis biographer Boze Hadleigh. (Busch's film Die, Mommie, Die! ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001Z3HEK/%24%7B0%7D ) is a sort of drag commentary of its own on movies such as Dead Ringer, which plot it apes.) Also included is an interview with Hadleigh and a featurette on the Doheny Mansion, location for this and many Hollywood movies. --Robert Horton See more ( javascript:void(0) )