Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

JohnHowardReid Here's Joan Crawford in full steam in the sort of overblown role that only she and Bette Davis (and maybe Susan Hayward – although she would play the character more sympathetically) could make halfway entertaining. Admittedly, Joan's not too flatteringly photographed here and her hair style is too severely swept back to be wholly attractive, but it certainly suits the non-compromising, selfish image of the altogether spoiled housewife that Crawford so enthusiastically – and with such dramatic relish – depicts. What I like about her performance too, is that Harriet is so perfectly consistent throughout: None of those last-minutes changes of heart that torpedo the TV soaps! Instead, we get honest-to-goodness self- centered reactions through and through. Also excellent in his role is Wendell Corey as the put-upon Craig. The rest of the players likewise excel. Everything seems suitably overblown. The direction is capable and all the crew are likewise efficient. Of course, it's just a soap after all and no more memorable than a well-polished endorsement of soap or cereal, but at least this movie is not compromised by a false ending and Crawford fans will definitely not be disappointed.

utgard14 One of Joan Crawford's best roles. She plays a possessive domineering perfectionist housewife who tries to control everyone in her life, particularly her exceptionally nice husband (Wendell Corey). A lot has been said about the similarities between the character of Harriet Craig and Joan herself. Perhaps that's why Joan's performance is so superb. She plays the character of Harriet so effortlessly. Wendell Corey is terrific as her husband. Through most of the movie he's a pushover but when he finally realizes who his wife really is and what she's capable of, look out! It's a very good drama but also some funny parts. Moves along at a crisp pace. Unlike most dramas from the period (and today, really) it doesn't overstay its welcome and pad the length for another twenty minutes. Definitely recommended.

dougdoepke You've got to hand it to dear Joan. At this stage of her career, she was willing to take on the most unflattering roles-- as long, I think, as they had a good change of wardrobe. Here, her Harriet Craig is the worst type of petty household tyrant, treating the help like unfeeling objects, and her husband (Corey) like a pet dog who must keep his place in her immaculate, precisely ordered mansion. In short, Harriet's a control freak.It's hard to work up the least bit of sympathy for Harriet, so complete are her demands and obsessions. Clearly, the perfectly arranged household and dutiful husband represent a profound need in her. In the end, however, she confuses people with objects, at the same time, she confuses her pet vase with people. She also lies to herself and others at the drop of a hat in order to keep up the pretense that this obsession amounts to a happy home. It's like she's idealized some pages in a woman's magazine. In a weird sense, Harriet represents the wifely homebody of the 1950's gone berserk.The production comes up with a number of nice touches that include the winsome KT Stevens as the sweet-tempered cousin Clare, (at times I wanted to reach through the screen to rescue her from Harriet's abusive clutches). But my money's really on the relatively unknown Viola Roache as the resentful maid Mrs. Harold. You can just feel her seething under some of Harriet's drill-sergeant demands. It's a nicely shaded, yet forceful performance. Anyway, it's also Wendell Corey in an uncharacteristic meek and mild role, though you might wonder why it takes his Walter Craig so long to catch on to Harriet's wiles. And of course, above all, there's the commanding Joan in a role patented for her fiercely formidable side, a gutsy role for her superstar status.

writers_reign It was exactly a quarter of a century after George Kelly's Craig's Wife opened on Broadway that Joan Crawford followed Rosalind Russell - who had starred in the first film version - into the role of the eponymous Mrs Craig. Crawford, lacking Russell's natural warmth, was perfect casting as the cold, manipulative control freak and could well have phoned it in. As it happened the supporting cast included the likes of Ellen Corby and Lucile Watson but there were albeit superfluous as Crawford could carry this one by sheer willpower and force of personality. Wendell Corey was still getting work wherever mahogany was called for and he did about as well as anyone with the thankless part of Craig, who is there merely as something - as opposed to someONE - for Harriet to fool, foil and manipulate. Inevitably, of course, she gets her comeuppance although she was never a magnificent Amberson so much as an insignificant Craig.