Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1947 American drama film by Dudley Nichols adapted from the 1931 Eugene O'Neill play Mourning Becomes Electra, based in turn on the Oresteia. The film …

Mourning Becomes Electra: Directed by Dudley Nichols. With Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou. Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New …

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Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter …

Movie "...Mother and daughter in love with the same man ... rivals in ruthlessness even to murder!" Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping...

Mourning Becomes Electra is divided into three plays with themes that correspond to the Oresteia trilogy. Much like the Aeschylus plays Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, …

In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamemnon, Brigadier General Ezra Mannon (Raymond Massey) comes home to his unhappy wife Christine (Katina Paxinou) and …

Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1947 American drama film by Dudley Nichols adapted from the 1931 Eugene O'Neill play Mourning Becomes Electra, based in turn on the Oresteia.