Possessed

A striking Joan Crawford performance as a woman on the brink of insanity highlights this powerful story about a married woman driven to the edge by her unrelenting passion for a former flame., Small town girl Marian goes to the big city for excitement. She becomes mistress to wealthy attorney Mark Whitney whose political ambitions can’t support a divorce scandal. Marian becomes his mistress, posing as the divorced Mrs. Moreland. Her old small town friend Al Manning, now a well off businessman, asks her to marry. She turns him down, Whitney’s private life is exposed, and she and Whitney discover that true love is important after all., A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she’s taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David and her schizophrenic behaviour which, ultimately, led to murder., We first meet Joan Crawford, star of this moody flashbackfest, wandering aimlessly through the city streets. She goes to pieces in public and is rushed to the mental ward, where a team of psychiatrists try to find out who she is and where she’s been., Joan Crawford stars in this romantic drama as an ambitious young woman who moves to New York to make her fortune, and thinks she finds an escape route from poverty when she begins an affair with a wealthy lawyer . She starts to worry about her future, though, when he seems reluctant to marry her., A woman on the brink of insanity is driven to the edge by her unrelenting passion for a former flame.