Film

The Bad and the Beautiful

I took you out of the gutter... I can fling you back!

7.3

1h 58m

1952

“I took you out of the gutter... I can fling you back!”

Synopsis

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.