Born to Be Bad | |
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Directed by | Nicholas Ray |
Screenplay by | Edith Sommer Charles Schnee (adaptation) Robert Soderberg (additional dialogue) George Oppenheimer (additional dialogue) |
Based on | the novel All Kneeling 1928 novel by Anne Parrish |
Produced by | Robert Sparks |
Starring | Joan Fontaine Robert Ryan Zachary Scott Joan Leslie Mel Ferrer |
Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
Edited by | Frederic Knudtson |
Music by | Frederick Hollander |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Born to Be Bad is a 1950 American film noir melodrama directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan and Zachary Scott. It features Fontaine as a manipulative young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. It is based on the bestselling novel All Kneeling by Anne Parrish (1928).[2]