Queen Bee

Queen Bee

1955 · 95 min · EN · NR · 6.5 (28 votes)
Dir. Ranald MacDougall · Starring Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, John Ireland, Lucy Marlow, Betsy Palmer, William Leslie · Music George Duning

She's so excitingly good . . . when she's so wonderfully bad!

Drama

A devilish Southern woman, married to a man who despises her, manages to manipulate those around her under the guise of being kind. But, when her sister-in-law is engaged to be married to the woman's former lover and her husband starts up an affair with her cousin, visting from New York, things start to go awry and she sets a plan to destroy it all.

VIBE

A suffocating Southern atmosphere where smiles hide venom. This drama simmers with unspoken resentments and calculated cruelty, all under the veneer of polite society. It's a slow, deliberate unraveling of carefully constructed lives.

manipulativetensemelancholicsouthern gothicsteadyclassic Hollywood dramaperiod piecemelodramadeceptionfamilyclasssouthern life
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