Becky Sharp (1935)
Adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray’s book “Vanity Fair”, the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
A poor cobbler’s son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company’s billboards, the competition’s daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.
An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.
The film gives a portrait of mental health treatment during the 50s, which was the heyday of treating mental patients in big institutions.
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Adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray’s book “Vanity Fair”, the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
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