Queen Bee

Queen Bee

1955 · 95 min · EN · NR · 6.3 (38 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 wicked Southern woman ruthlessly manipulates her family.

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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