Come Back, Little Sheba Movie Streaming
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Come Back, Little Sheba Movie Streaming.
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Shirley Booth’s Lola Delaney is (possibly rivalled only by Charles Laughton’s Quasimodo) the most pathetic character ever put on film. It is palpably hurtful to bear with her the many humiliations she undergoes during the course of the film. Caught in a sort of stand off relationship with her husband, she is lonely and emotionally wasting away, while seeming to deny this fact to herself. And when she cuts loose and tries to have a little fun, dancing or enjoying radio music meant to transport you out of your daily grind, she is merely the subject of laughter and rolling eyes. Her teary ruminations on the titular lost dog are, as I read it, symbolic of a larger aching need to find someone or something with which to exchange affection. I just saw Come Back again for the first time in 30 years, and I think it is as strong now as it must have been in 1952. The cinematography by the great James Wong Howe starts out bright and ordinary, felling like a 50s sitcom, but as layers of the dark heart of the drama are peeled away, the look becomes noirish and menacing –we know something is going to snap. You won’t forget it.
Even in a time when films were less gimmicky than today, Come Back is really an anti-gimmick movie. It is just a glimpse into the life of a couple simmering under the surface with regret, old hurt and selfdoubt.
This is a powerful drama. Lancaster plays a sort of Jeckyll and Hyde character named “Doc”: calm and refined when sober, angry and dangerous when drunk. The scene in which, drunk, he attacks his wife, Lola, is harrowing. I’ve seen few scenes to beat it in terms of intensity and believability. Doc buries his disappointments in drink and harbors a deep suspicion of women’s sexuality. Indeed, he is obsessed with female purity; thus the fact that Lola was pregnant before their marriage weighs heavily on him, and Doc, like Lola’s father, never forgives her for this sexual “mistake.” Booth, as Lola, is heartbreakingly poignant. The dominant symbol in the film, Lola’s lost dog, Sheba, represents Lola’s lost self: her youth and her dreams. Because she has no where to go when Doc becomes “sick” again, she is forced to resign herself to being a housewife who whitewashes her problems just like she gives her wooden ice box a fresh coat of paint.
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“You’re all I have,” Lola says to Doc at the end of the film. “You’re all I ever had.” Booth’s genius in that scene is most evident. I once read that Inge, the author of the play on which this film is based, was an alcoholic himself and believed that each woman should always stand by her man. But one look at Booth’s performance makes it clear that Booth didn’t think so. Booth’s Lola is desolate at the end of this film. Her mother and father won’t take her in and her neighbor’s only advice is “keep busy.” This, Lola will do, as she must, as she has no choice, but at a high cost.
The first time I saw this film I was 12 or 13 years old. I’m 50 now. I just watched it again tonight. I cried.
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