The Silver Cord |
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“A man’s mother is a man’s mother.”
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Director Starring |
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I would recommend this highly to anyone with a taste for overwrought melodrama. It plays as high camp today (in an eminently pleasing way) but I would also class it as a fairly sophisticated gothic horror piece. Laura Hope Crews eats up the scenery as a mother with a special relationship with her two “big boys.” She has built herself up as a paragon of womanhood and has a morbid romantic attachment to them. Their adoration for her is likewise perverse. It’s not just a matter of no other woman is good enough for my boys so come, let me clutch you to my bosom; talk of pregnancy or shared bedrooms actually elicits shrieks of horror, and when the girlfriend of the younger son is drowning in a frozen pond her main concern is that he’s not wearing his overcoat. It’s delicious good fun, by turns hilarious and horrifying. Dunne’s the “lady scientist” who gets roped into the madness by pregnancy. Bizarre and overtly sexual.
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