Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1932 • United States
Starring Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
Director Raoul Walsh brings his characteristic punch to this raucous pre-Code western-comedy-romance starring Joan Bennett as Salomy Jane, the titular free-spirited child of the California mountains who “likes trees better than men” (reason: “because trees are straight”). Though she is wooed by a succession of suitors, Salomy Jane refuses to be tied down—until, while out skinny dipping one day, she meets a strapping stranger (Charles Farrell) who has come to town looking for revenge.
Directed by Jean Renoir • 1947 • United States
Starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
Filled with primal lust, bold imagery, and murderous hearts, Jean Renoir’s fifth American film (heavily recut by the studio prior to its release) is the renowned French director’s fever dream of a...
Directed by George Cukor • 1933 • United States
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
As four sisters grow from girls to young adults in New England during the hard years of the Civil War, the difficulties, tragedies and joys they experience tear at—but cannot break—their deep ...
Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1936 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon
Cary Grant and Joan Bennett make for a most delightful crime-solving duo in this eccentric mix of gangster drama and screwball comedy. Eve Fallon (Bennett) is a spitfire manicurist turned ace newspap...
