Beyond the Forest
“Nobody's as good as Bette when she's bad!”
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Beyond the Forest performed
Budget
$1.6M
Worldwide Gross
$1.7M
Gross Profit
$149,000
Return
1.1× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$250K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
Rosa Moline
Bette Davis
Rosa Moline
Doctor Louis Moline
Joseph Cotten
Doctor Louis Moline
Neil Latimer
David Brian
Neil Latimer
Carol
Ruth Roman
Carol
Moose
Minor Watson
Moose
Jenny
Dona Drake
Jenny
Sorren
Regis Toomey
Sorren
Mildred
Sarah Selby
Mildred
Edith Williams
Ann Doran
Edith Williams
Secretary
Bess Flowers
Secretary
Townsman with Glasses
Creighton Hale
Townsman with Glasses
Townswoman
Dorothy Vernon
Townswoman
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