Beyond the Forest

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Beyond the Forest
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Directed by	King Vidor
Produced by	Henry Blanke
Written by	Stuart D. Engstrand (novel) Lenore J. Coffee
Starring	Bette Davis Joseph Cotten
Music by	Max Steiner
Cinematography	Robert Burks
Editing by	Rudi Fehr
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	21 October, 1949
Running time	97 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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Beyond the Forest (1949) is a Warner Brothers film noir directed by King Vidor, produced by Henry Blanke with Jack L. Warner as executive producer from a screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee based on a novel by Stuart Engstrand.

The film stars Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman, Minor Watson, Dona Drake, and Regis Toomey.

It contains the line, "What a dump!", spoken by Davis, made famous by being the first line in Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962).

The film marks Davis' last appearance as a contract actress for Warner, after eighteen years with the studio.

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