Fresh
Wallach as the vengeful Vacarro plays it to the hilt. Malden is cast to perfection and turns in a socko performance.
Variety Staff, Variety
Baby Doll
She's nineteen. She makes her husband keep away -- she won't let the stranger go.
1956 · 1h 54m · R
Drama
Directed by
Elia Kazan
Overview
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
Director and cast
- Elia Kazan Director
- Karl Malden as Archie Lee Meighan
- Carroll Baker as Baby Doll Meighan
- Eli Wallach as Silva Vacarro
- Mildred Dunnock as Aunt Rose Comfort
- Lonny Chapman as Rock
- Eades Hogue as Town Marshal
- Noah Williamson as Deputy
- R.G. Armstrong as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
- Madeleine Sherwood as Nurse in Doctor's Office (uncredited)
- Rip Torn as The Dentist (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One of Elia Kazan's most underrated movies is his only pure comedy.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The grotesquely caricatured performances and the evocation of the baking, dusty, indolent homestead make for witty and compelling viewing.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Mr. Kazan keeps the courtship bouncing between the emotional and the ludicrous.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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