Synopsis
"Among
Kazan’s most controversial films, this dynamic and intensely cinematic adaptation of
Tennessee Williams’ provocative study of sexual desire inflamed a passionate outcry from the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency, who tried to derail the film by branding it with their lowest rating of 'C,' for 'condemned.' Centered around
Carroll Baker’s still shocking performance as the thumb-sucking yet sexually precocious
Baby Doll and principally shot in rural Mississippi,
Kazan’s mid-career masterpiece offers one of the finest renditions of the psychosexual territory of Williams’ mysteriously deep, Deep South." – Harvard Film Archive
