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Beyond the ForestVidor's Wisconsinization of Flaubert's Madame Bovary casts a vinegary Davis in the Emma role, Cotten as the doctoring husband who can't provide her with the romantic excitement she craves, and Brian as the bear-hunting industrialist who offers her some excitement in his log cabin. As hilariously overplayed as a Mexican soap opera, this is the film in which Davis - already self-parodic in 1949 - utters those immortal words, 'what a dump'. It's also the film in which she drops dead of peritonitis in a railway station. Knowing the ending will only enhance your enjoyment of the glorious unlikelihood of her demise.
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