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Film Harriet Craig (1950) and Back Street (1961)

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Mommie Dearest's immortal line, "it's not you, it's the dirt," retroactively receives poetic justice in Vincent Sherman's not-on-DVD melodrama, Harriet Craig, in which real-life psychotic neat freak Joan Crawford plays a psychotic neat-freak housewife, whose need for absolute control brings about her own destruction. There's even more trouble in suburban paradise in Back Street, David Miller's also not-on-DVD weeper about a love triangle between Susan Hayward's "other woman," her paramour (John Gavin), and his shrewish wife — played to alcoholic perfection by Vera Miles. Pack your hankies and some Lysol, just in case.

– Matt Sussman

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