Rotten
The tragedy got lost somewhere in Richard Brooks's crushingly blunt direction.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
The Catered Affair
When you're in love, nothing else matters
1956 · 1h 34m · APPROVED
Drama
Directed by
Richard Brooks
Overview
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
Director and cast
- Richard Brooks Director
- Bette Davis as Mrs. Agnes Hurley
- Ernest Borgnine as Tom Hurley
- Debbie Reynolds as Jane Hurley
- Barry Fitzgerald as Uncle Jack Conlon
- Rod Taylor as Ralph Halloran
- Robert F. Simon as Mr. Joe Halloran
- Madge Kennedy as Mrs. Joe Halloran
- Dorothy Stickney Cast
- Carol Veazie Cast
- Joan Camden Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
17%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Overall, the performances are good and there are occasionally amusing and touching momemts in the otherwise talky, mostly drab, affair under Richard Brooks' direction.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Richard Brooks directed in a sort of free-wheeling way that carries the action jumpily from poignancy to farce and from moments of frowsy frustration to scenes of vulgar squawling en famille.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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