My Forbidden Past

If you love Robert Mitchum, must watch this movie!

Love this movie. Robert Mitchum is wonderful as always!

ALL THE ACTORS HAVE HAD GREAT CAREERS AND HELD THEIR OWN OPPOSITE MANY BIG NAME MOVIE STARS. AVA GARDNER WAS ONE OF THE GREAT BEAUTIES OF HOLLYWOOD, ALTHOUGH SHE CAN ACT, SHE IS NOT VERY GOOD AT SHOWING EMOTION IN HER FACE, SHE HAS VERY FEW SETTINGS. THE CAMERA LOVES HER AND HER DIRECTORS USE HER FOR CLOSE UPS. IN ALL OF HIS MOVIE ROLES, ROBERT MITCHUM ALWAYS SEEMS TO ME TO BE THE OUTSIDER THAT EVERYONE REVOLVES AROUND. HE HAS A THIRD VIEW KIND OF LIKE THE AUDIENCE. IN MY OPINION THE REAL STANDOUT STAR OF THIS MOVIE IS MELVYN DOUGLAS WHO HAS MORE CHARISMA THAN LOOKS OR CHARACTER. ADD TO THE MIX MONEY, POWER AND CLASS STRUGGLES IN OLD NEW ORLEANS.

I'm a huge fan of classic movies and this DVD delivers. Ava Gardner is beauitiful and Mitchem is great in this unusual story.

The story has nothing new to tell, but it's fun watching Douglas, Mitchum and Mrs. Gardner. The running time of 70 Min. is exactly what this movie needs.

Terrific print,outstanding movie with Ava Gardner looking beautiful

Awesome classic

I truly loved this story though I feel it's more of an Ava Gardner film then a Robert Mitchum film but that's ok. The story has an interesting story of a young woman controlled by her grandmother and uncle. A woman who wants to escape their grasp. She falls in love with Robert Mitchum character who is on his way to becoming a doctor and they scheme to get on a boat and never look back. Does that plan happen? Watch the movie and find out, you won't be disappointed.

Was what I ordered

When I was a child in the 1960's "My Forbidden past" was one of the few cinema feature films to regularly turn up on a Sunday afternoon as the "Film Matinee" on BBC TV. I can't recall seeing it since those days, but it's a pleasure to view now. Expertly edited to just over seventy minutes, the plot zips along splendidly. It's a melodrama of the old fashioned school, with Ava Gardner as the jilted lover of Robert Mitchum who sets out to seek revenge on him. Ava is certainly at her most passionate here, and Mr Mitchum more than ever in his very laid back acting style. You can almost see in his face the obvious contempt he had for the lines he has to utter! This is a real 1950's "programmer", originally designed to be one half of a double-bill programme. It is most attractively designed with lavish sets and plenty of costume changes for Ava (in spite of her emotional crisis!!). As for the transfer, it's a nice crisp print with good audio and video quality. If you like these type of romances, you couldn't do better than this.

Je connaissais déjà Stevenson avec Jane Eyre. Mais j'avoue que, là; j'ai été bluffé! Il me semble que le "couple" Ava Gardner et Mitchum n'y est pas étranger!

The niece (Ava Gardner) of an aristocratic but impoverished old New Orleans family falls in love with a penniless research scientist (Robert Mitchum). But when he returns from South America with a new bride (Janis Carter), she uses her recently acquired inheritance in her plans for revenge. Directed by Robert Stevenson (MARY POPPINS) from the novel CARRIAGE TRADE by Polan Banks, this is an old fashioned "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" melodrama and quite entertaining, too. Though the rough around the edges Mitchum is questionable casting as a bookish research scientist, the fetching Gardner is at the height of her beauty and one could be content basking in her exquisite close ups. The acting honors are stolen by Melvyn Douglas as Gardner's wily, unctuous and conscienceless cousin who ruins everything. He's positively slimy and it's a breath of relief when he gets his just desserts. The expert art and set direction recreates late 19th century New Orleans milieu with adroit dexterity and lovingly shot by Harry J. Wild (GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES). With Lucile Watson, Gordon Oliver and Clarence Muse. The Odeon Entertainment DVD via Great Britain is a handsome B&W transfer in the appropriate 1.33 aspect ratio.

Un mélodrame criminelle qui se déroule dans le Sud des USA, et plus spécialement à la Nouvelle Orléans à la fin du XIXème siècle. Si le scénario demeure assez conventionnelle et si la mise en scène est bonne sans être inspirée, l'essentiel de la qualité du film réside dans le trio d'acteurs: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner et surtout Melvyn Douglas qui compose un personnage d'aristocrate décadent particulièrement savoureux. En VO, VF ou en VOST français.