Diagonaldi Very well executed

Tockinit not horrible nor great

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

SunriseSong The subject matter reflects the genre: a self-centered woman destroys all who dare to love her, and the camera work in the the final chase scene is indicative of the style, with Bette's eyes in the rear view mirror as her character runs from the consequences of her own selfish choices. What possessed the studio to cast Bette Davis (who is 8 years older than Olivia de Havilland) to play the younger sister? Was the studio bound by the novel the screenplay was based upon? Davis steals her brother-in-law (Morgan) leaving her fiancé (Brent) broken-hearted. Once married, Peter ruins his career through drink and he takes his own life. Olivia de Havilland plays Roy, the long suffering sister, with a cool detachment and Billie Burke has a small role as the neurotic mother who spends what few scenes she has chewing the scenery, but she can't hold a candle to the wild-eyed Davis as the willful daughter, Stanley. The frenetic pace of the film careens to its dramatic conclusion with Davis' character unrepentant to the end. One can only imagine the fictional family is as relieved to be rid of Stanley as the actors who played them are to be done with this film. It's a stinker.

Martin Bradley John Huston's second film, "In This Our Life" may have been just a job of work for him and nothing more than a trashy melodrama but it's undeniably entertaining with a very classy cast even if it does have one of Bette Davis' worst performances, (she's still the bitch but her acting is pinched as if her heart wasn't in it, as if she knows what a crock she's landed herself in). She's the bad sister who steals her good sister's husband and drives him to suicide. Olivia De Havilland is the good sister who finds her backbone after she's been dumped. It was quite daring for its day, even touching on the subject of incest, (Bette has a randy old uncle who has the hots for her and is played with lip-smacking relish by Charles Coburn). The men in their lives are George Brent, (who else?), and Dennis Morgan and there's a nice supporting turn from the young African-American actor Ernest Anderson, (whatever happened to him?) as the boy Bette tries to incriminate in a hit-and-run. Unfortunately poor Hattie McDaniel, only a couple of years after winning an Oscar, is back to playing Mammy and Billie Burke is wasted as the mother who never seems to get out of bed. Huston's heart may not have been in it any more than Bette's but he keeps it moving along at quite a gallop nevertheless.

Claudio Carvalho In Richmond, after the Great Depression, the industrialist Asa Timberlake (Frank Craven) is cheated by his brother-in-law and partner William Fitzroy (Charles Coburn) and loses his business to him. His spoiled daughter Stanley Timberlake (Bette Davis), who is the pride and joy of William, is going to marry the idealist lawyer Craig Fleming (George Brent). However, she flees to Baltimore with the surgeon Peter Kingsmill (Dennis Morgan), who is the husband of her sister Roy Timberlake (Olivia de Havilland). After a short period of happiness, Peter cannot afford to support the shopping of Stanley and commits suicide. Meanwhile Roy divorces from Peter and gets close to Craig that proposes to marry her. The black teenager Parry Clay (Ernest Anderson) that worked to Timberlake, dreams in becoming a lawyer, and Craig hires him to work in his office. Stanley returns home and unsuccessfully tries to seduce Craig, inviting him to have dinner with her in a tavern. However Craig does not show up and the upset Stanley drives back home at high speed. She hits and run a mother and her daughter and kills the girl. When the police comes to Asa's house, Stanly accuses Parry of driving her car and the youth is arrested and put in jail. What will happen to the innocent Parry?"In This Our Life" is a film directed by John Huston about a selfish and evil woman. His tight direction saves the dramatic and tense story from becoming a melodramatic soap opera. Bette Davis steals the show with a fantastic performance. The rest of the cast is also magnificent. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Nascida para o Mal" ("Born to the Evil")

st-shot With a phalanx of enablers a wide eyed Bette Davis leaves a path of deception, death and destruction as she roars through this Warners melodrama directed by John Huston. Davis is a spoiled whirlwind (celebrated these days in shows like My Sweet 16 and Bridezilla) as she steals husbands, betrays family and exploits the incestuous hunger of a rich uncle with worse to come.On the eve of her marriage to activist lawyer Craig Fleming (George Brent) Stanley Timberlake (Davis) runs off with her sister Roy's (Olivia DeHavilland) husband. Tiring of this she destroys him and heads back home to a sympathetic family. Once forgiven and re-established it's back to old tricks for Stanley.Bow lipped Bette doesn't blink once as she let's nothing stand in her way to get what she wants. Rages, hissy fits (including a brief Kate Hepburn imitation) define Stanley from the outset and Davis as a twentieth century version of her Jezebel character hammers it home with brio. Over the top and outrageous from beginning to end it's vintage Bette and she dominates the screen. Brent, DeHavilland, Billie Burke, Frank Craven and Dennis Morgan support and suffer the whimsical monster nobly while Charles Coburn, in the most powerful and disturbing role of his career as the lascivious uncle matches her venality.Director Huston and writer Howard Koch infuse In This Our Life with more than the standard Warner weeper melodramatic twists adding dark undertones of perverse desire and destructive self denial that strikes at the underpinnings of the American family. In spite of a loving family Stanley is little more than a feral animal, coldly self absorbed. All the men are weak with the exception of Coburn, a bellowing degenerate exploiter. The Timberlake wives remain in the throes of nervous breakdowns while the daughters male names beg for analogy. Life in it's own way and time is as provocative and disturbing as Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye made a quarter of a century later in a more relaxed state of censorship. For his part Huston who usually deals with strong, independent males simply reverses the roles here while maintaining his sterling ability to reveal character through setting and angle. Southern based he renders without stridency or stereotype the second class citizenry of the Black American during the period, subtly and effectively injecting it into a crucial part of the plot. Not an easy feat to accomplish in the face of entitled hurricane Bette.