Review of Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) by Vicki W — 12 Oct 2007

I picked this up from the video store based on its awesome name alone. I enjoyed it, too, because I was in a real trashy-pulp-movie mood. A woman gives up her singing career to support her musician husband and have a kid.

Then her husband gets famous and is always away with adoring female fans. They get a big house and a maid, she becomes an alcoholic. They fight everytime he happens to come home, the kid gets really sick, the husband leaves her, she kidnaps her child, nearly kills them both in a fire, and it's not until the end, where she's horribly disfigured from the fire that her husband comes back to her and they're in love again.

There's a moral in this movie we can all benefit from.