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Did anyone else laugh out loud when they showed Kay's dying face?

posted 9 years ago by Gov_William_J_LePetomane
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Was this film SUPPOSED to be campy? Because it is. Maybe it's emblematic of films from 1945, but certain scenes were veritably dripping with camp. When they showed the younger daughter's dying face and she cries out, "Mother" I actually laughed out loud. And then the doctor sort of blurts out, "Oh...I...did everything I could but she didn't make it." It was like something out of the movie Airplane!

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[–] Druff (1518) 9 months ago

Yes, movies from those days did tend to be campy and hammy to the point of being surreal.

Virtually every single scene in this movie was campy and overwrought. But lol'ing specifically at the death of a little kid... not a good look.

[–] liscarkat (17080) 3 months ago

OP thought the movie was "campy". That's the typical gay point of view about anything associated with Crawford. It seems to be a mandatory gay obsession.