Two days in the life of a married couple in their New York mansion. The lady of the house, Harriet Craig (a brilliant Rosalind Russell), destroys anyone who stands between her and the home she is determined to control. Directed by Dorothy Arzner ‒the only female and openly lesbian director in 1930s-40s Hollywood‒ this crowning jewel of American cinema turns the territory traditionally assigned to women in melodrama into an almost abstract concept of power and domesticity, transformed into a battlefield.
