Beyond the Forest

Beyond the Forest

Synopsis

Bette Davis plays callous housewife Rosa Moline in King Vidor's dramatic noir. Rosa is unsatisfied by the monotony of life with her husband Doctor Louis Moline (Joseph Cotten) in a quiet town in Wisconsin and she decides to pursue Neil Latimer (David Brian), a business man from Chicago. After extorting her husband's money to fund the affair, she soon realises that she cannot always get what she wants and her stubbornness soon results in tragedy.