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- TITLE: NOT WANTED
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- CAST: Sally Forrest,Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn
- DIRECTOR: Lupino,Ida,Clifton, Elmer
- LENGTH: 94 min
- COLOR_B&W_TINTED: B&W
- RELEASE_DATE: 1949
- GENRE_MAIN: Drama
- GENRE_SECOND: Social
- GENRE_THIRD: Feminist
- COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN: U.S.
- LANGUAGE: English
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- REVIEW_RATING: **1/2 M
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- RIGHTS_TV: TV
- AVAILABILITY_DATE: 4/1/98
- TERRITORY_DOMESTIC: U.S.
- TERRITORY_CANADA: Canada
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- SYNOPSIS: Ida Lupino wrote and produced NOT WANTED, but when original director Elmer Clifton suffered a heart attack on the third day of shooting, Lupino took over and made her debut as a director in this uncredited effort. Venturing into terrain where mainstream Hollywood feared to tread -- the taboo topic of out-of-wedlock pregnancy -- Lupino fashioned a intensely emotional film that goes beyond conventional melodrama to become a gut-wrenching story of desire, betrayal, and awakening. This extraordinary first film already bears the stamp of Lupino's unique vision: the empathy for her protagonist (Sally Forrest as a dazed, traumatized young waitress thrust into the world of unwed motherhood after an ill-starred one night stand), the hallucinatory moments, and the atmospheric location shooting that conveyed a sense of an America outside the Hollywood fantasy world that still dominated the screens.
"Far in advance of the feminist movement, Lupino challenged the passive images of women in Hollywood." Martin Scorsese
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