As a Mother's Day treat, Film Noir UK presents a 35mm screening of Michael Curtiz’s classic noir melodrama starring the great Joan Crawford.

Based on James M. Cain’s rich psychological novel, Michael Curtiz’s film showcases one of cinema’s most celebrated mothers, which gave Crawford her first and only Oscar®. In this 1945 classic, we observe asingle mother’s hell-bent mission on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship.

This bitter cocktail of blind parental love and all-American ambition is both unremittingly hard-boiled and sumptuously emotional. Dubbed as one of the true classics of Hollywood cinema, no other film of its time played havoc with the era's American ideals of women, home, mom and her apple pie more than Mildred Pierce.

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