Lizzie (1957) (MOD)

Lizzie (1957) (MOD)In 1957, two starkly dramatic movies about a mentally troubled woman with three distinct personalities vied for attention. The second of these elevated Joanne Woodward to stardom and won her a Best Actress Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve. But the first, arriving months earlier and boasting a juicy role for three time Academy Award nominee Eleanor Parker, is equally worthy. In Lizzie, from Shirley Jackson's novel The Bird's Nest, Parker is first seen

Deborah Kerr

covering the cowboy king's career

Karin and frazzled Zoltan (Niels Arestrup) must figure things out as they go

Three in the Attic and Ryan's Daughter

can't foresee the subtly twisted lengths to which a forsaken ex will go to sabotage the new couple's happiness

especially sunlit

Exceptional

he'll be taken to a chilling recreation of German headquarters (complete with a bogus Hitler) in a converted air-raid shelter - across the Iron Curtain

remains determined to do right to all and wrong to no one

Out there - why

Hap Farrell (Charles Wilson)

"We created stunts that I once didn't believe possible