Beyond the Forest
Vidor’s "film noir"-like melodrama of a middle-aged woman trapped in a small town she despises and married to a husband she regards as a weakling informs Edward Albee's "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". Married couple Martha and George, whose relationship is reminiscent of Bette Davis/Joseph Cotten in Vidor’s film, have an exchange over a scene in "Beyond the Forest", that opens with Martha invoking the now-famous line, “What a dump.”: