Review of All This, and Heaven Too (1940) by Mark S — 07 Nov 2009

Enjoyable and unpredictable, but overlong. After watching it in quick succession with several other Bette Davis films I realised what range she had. Her turn as a young governess unfairly mixed up in scandal is unlike any of her other roles that I've currently seen and I wouldn't necessarily have thought it'd suit her, yet she's entirely believable.

As with some of her other films from this period the same can't be said for some of her fellow cast members. Charles Boyer is okay but a little bland as the Duc de Praslin, and (even though she was nominated for an Oscar in the role) I found Barbara O'Neil to be a bit too hammy as his jealous seemingly manic-depressive wife.