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Baby Doll (1956)

Drama | 114 minutes
3,54 55 votes

Genre: Drama / Comedy

Duration: 114 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Stars: Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach

IMDb score: 7,3 (8.847)

Releasedate: 18 December 1956

Baby Doll plot

"She's nineteen. She makes her husband keep away -- she won't let the stranger go."

Archie anxiously awaits his child wife Baby Doll's twentieth birthday, as he has sworn not to touch her before then. With two days to go, it erupts.

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Archie Lee Meighan

Baby Doll Meighan

Silva Vacarro

Aunt Rose Comfort

Town Marshal

Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)

Nurse in Doctor's Office (uncredited)

The Dentist (uncredited)

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BBarbie

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By far the weakest film by Elia Kazan, which I still rate very highly because he has a number of sublime films (5*) to his credit. This one doesn't belong there at all. I think this controversial film at the time —just like Kubrick's “Lolita”— owes its (over)appreciation mainly to its brooding character. Anyway, very mediocre in my eyes.

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scorsese

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Good film about a young woman who is already married, but keeps her virginity until her twentieth birthday. Clearly based on a play, and the first half is a bit long. The scenes between Caroll Baker and a debuting Eli Wallach are the best. The finale is also good in which the tensions are heightened a bit.

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clubsport

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The story itself has a hard time getting started , but when Wallach and Baker come into contact it starts to come to life .

Those scenes and the build-up of tension ensure that the film is still worth watching.

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