Bette Davis--"Fraction of a Second", Marian Seldes, Linda Watkins, 1958 TV

[@FreyaVanBuren-go8qn]

This is the reason I stick in watching old movies because they make more sense and they always have a meaning or something to teach. Bette Davis one of the best actresses!

[@pineo81]

I don't know what's more entertaining, Bette Davis and her phenomenal acting, or the subtitles 😂

[@homeless_greg_games]

I was about to type same thing :) Someone had a four nation notion 😂

[@AsWeSpeak154]

The subtitles had nothing to do with the movie.😅😂

[@pineo81]

@@AsWeSpeak154 🤣😂🤣

[@cindirose3390]

I saw that, goofy

[@footballcolleen6974]

Those subtitles don’t even say exactly what she is saying! It’s all just jiberesh!

[@GenerallyGeneralLee]

The cat lady played the piano player's mother in "Baby Jane" a few years later. These old generic TV dramas that nobody ever heard of are PRICELESS for Bette Davis fans. Thank you so much for uploading!

[@watanabewatanabe7886]

That's Marjorie Bennett. The matron was Marian Seldes. They were both great character actresses.

[@GROOVYJOJO]

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[@CocoaPuff01]

I loved this though. It's a hidden gem

[@annfisher3316]

Bette the best actress for any part, she reigns supreme! 🎬 🎞 📽

[@rogerpropes7129]

Any part?--Cleopatra, Scarlett O'Hara, Jane Eyre, Lucy Ricardo, Lorelei Lee....anything Jane Mansfield played, c'mon.

[@nhmooytis7058]

I saw this on TV when it aired. I was 6, never forgot it but didn’t remember it starred Bette! Thought it was called The Split Second which was the Daphne du Maurier story it was based on, and thought it was on Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Finally tracked it down today! Thanks for posting!

[@lynda4199]

Thanks for the upload. I enjoyed this movie very much. I personally don't care that the captioning was off. I'm just grateful that I can watch these old movies for free. Many thanks!

[@poetcomic1]

I pressed the CC button and got close captioning over the gibberish.

[@luisfedericosala1354]

Thinking I watched this teleplay with my mother on the sixties and never forget the plot. It is one of the many masterpiece by Bette Davis ❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹

[@nhmooytis7058]

Me too!

[@michaelmitchell5098]

The subtitles are hilarious!! It was like watching a comedy.

[@miapdx503]

Like a parody! 😆

[@robyn9059]

Bette Davis is always been my favorite actress. I thought I watched everything but never seen this movie before thank you so much for sharing.

[@theresajames6868]

Better Davis movies are definitely some of my favorite as we'll. I'm delighted to have come across these never seen before mini movies.

[@patricebetts6531]

This is a tv movie from the fifties as opposed to a movie film. Bette Davis appeared in many tv productions in the fifties from what I understand.

[@melanie_luv2_sew]

What a jewel this was to watch. I'd never even heard of it. I am such a Huge fan of the incomparable Bette Davis. She was the finest actress there ever was. Thanks for posting this. It was most compelling.

[@vm6824]

Marian Seldes - one of the absolute best radio drama actresses of all time!

[@LeeZeidel-s1h]

Bette Davis in my opinion was the greatest actress of all time . There is nobody even today that can measure up to her talent and ability ❤

[@CissyBrazil]

What a class act she was. Her cadence of saying lines is very unique. I have to deliberately not look at captions because the translations are so messed up. Rather funny.

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

There is no such thing as 'very unique' Something is either unique or it is not unique. It is like saying 'she is a little bit pregnant" .

[@CissyBrazil]

@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 Although you are grammatically correct, your comment was unnecessary. To me, Bette Davis was very unique ( over the top unique ) IMO

[@PMQB]

Captions in many cases are so inaccurate. Truly I feel sorry for the deaf. To me it's. A BAD thing. Very CAREless. A few words can basically mess everything thing up !!!!!! Julie kilburn

[@MissLachine]

What a entertaining movie~Bette Davis was such a fascinating Actress~Thank You very much for sharing this Movie 🌟🌹

[@pmullins1495]

Betty Davis excels in these types of emotional roles. She's too perfect at it, it's stressful for the viewer.

[@mikeilamenk]

I read that Bette Davis wanted to back out of this because something happened to her face during a fight with her husband. My poor Bette 😭 She had to do it under such circumstance and she gave it her all. She always gave her finest performance.

[@mikeilamenk]

Jieron Baltazar no, she fell onto the gravel driveway and the other side of her face was badly bruised and scratched. They put heavy make up on it

[@christinamacneal6187]

Always loved Bette..the Best.¥

[@CocoaPuff01]

Gary Merrill was awful

[@soulakiessling6198]

​@@mikeilamenklllo.

[@julieshelley9251]

Love Bette Davis! Great movie

[@mocabey3308]

Thanks for the movie. Subtitles are hilarious!

[@callicordova4066]

Bette is experiencing an anomaly in the space-time continuum with crazy subtitles. I can't stop reading the subtitles.

[@patrickryan1515]

So that makes the substandard subtitles fit PERFECTLY (if you stop to think about it).

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

I just listened rather than watched so that they didn't annoy me. The subtitles must have been made voice generated before they were perfected ad they are now in 2021

[@ann-mariepaliukenas19]

Subtitles have their own dimension lol

[@annafattore1273]

😂😂😂

[@gentillydanny]

This is one screwed up old program. The subtitles were funny as hell and the story was chopped up and crazy. Thumbs up because of Bette.

[@christinamacneal6187]

" ".¥

[@kandorstevenson]

A wonderful drama piece played beautifully by Miss Davis. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@lovingmayberry307]

Odd movie, but no matter, I'd watch Bette Davis in anything. ❤

[@GGiblet]

This is splendid! Thank you so much🙌💙🌈💙

[@janethalken8269]

I found this channel only recently, so glad I did! Bless your heart for sharing this and all the other videos. I don't have a credit card and finding really great things for free is just heavenly.

[@BrooklynDreaminCG]

Bette Davis is always a pleasure to find and see, even in some long forgotten cheesy tv ghost drama from the 50's. The thing about a good ghost story is that it still has to make some sense; this one doesn't. 20 years is not such a long time for the police and city records, especially in a small town, for everyone to realize pretty quickly that some ghostly phenomenon was happening.

[@karinkissinger5106]

Oh my goodness thank you so much Bette Davis will always be my favorite actress! Can you download Beyond the Forest.

[@nameprivate4287]

Beyond the Forest is one of her movies that is hard to find but if you have Roku you can watch it free. Its on one of the free classic movie channels. Roku opened the door for some many older movies from a list of many stars. On one channel they have a list of stars and many movies from each star in a list free to watch.

[@thestonsmith4971]

Bette Davis is my favorite also.

[@gulmerton2758]

What a strange story… but very interesting and always a pleasure to see Bette Davis.

[@patriciamharris5664]

None can compare to our Bette💜💜🥰

[@Girlgamssilver]

There's only one Better Davis. This movie is terrific. Didn't she make another one like this around this time in her career?

[@dennislyon8030]

No Actress could touch her acting ability especially in Now Voyager🎥🎥❤️❤️

[@tmo.48]

My favorite ❤❤❤

[@dennislyon8030]

@@tmo.48 OH ya especially when she's walking down the hallway to see her mother in that black dress.She knows got it 📽️🎬

[@markclowe]

The embedded subtitles are TERRIBLE! I can't keep from reading them and they are completely WRONG! OMG!!! Perhaps they are attempting to gaslight us into insanity like they did Bette Davis???

[@aeichler]

Sorry. The subtitles are in the print and I can't remove them.

[@markclowe]

@@aeichler No worries, brother!

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

@Alan Eichler the subtitles are in the print? Where did you get this film ? At a foreign school for practice in English translation? Oh, well. Can't do much about such abominable translation except register annoyance and trust that any foreign language students don't get utterly confused.

[@jackrobinson5974]

@Tanya Brown Oh no! I pray you did not watch this movie and attribute the sub titles to what was actually being said. If so you are now probably in a home for the mentally deranged. Driven crazy by this insane translation which is actually quite funny and could be a whole different movie about schizophrenia.

[@GenerallyGeneralLee]

@19:11 "Are you hairy ball?" LMFAO Gosh officer, kindof a personal question!

[@AstralPixie]

What a terrifying experience. *Bette*

[@caroldixon7796]

I think they were trying to do something like the O'Henry story, where the soldier is hung and he thinks he escaped but he didn't. It started out great but it ended terrible. Thanks for posting. The subtitles were like the computer-generated ones that I have seen before. I'm really not complaining as I watched it all the way through. :-)

[@melorafoy7109]

It's based on a Daphne De Maurea short story which I've listened to an audio version of. There are slight differences. She thought she almost got hit by delivery truck. And 20 years had passed.

[@thriftylady662]

That was fabulous!!!

[@eamestv]

Great performance!

[@TheWanderingFinnegan]

So many of these older movies have an excellent twist at the end.

[@drjanines3301]

TY for this fantastic upload 😁

[@jamesdouglas5450]

First time watching this only watched because it starred Davis superb as usual and enjoyed this movie

[@bellacucina3209]

Bette being perfection makes any B movie an award-winner!!

[@rootsrockers109]

Bette was absolutely fantastic, just like every role she did. But the story dosnt stand up. Shame. A let down in the end. I will try and read the original story. It will probably give a better understanding of the whole scenario

[@saundramichael7968]

She rose from the dead?

[@patrickryan1515]

I think for economic reasons Ms. Davis was forced to accept roles in films that were beneath her stature as an artist; same for Joan Crawford. Ironic (and sad) that they both met the same film fate. They were both such superstars (before the term was even used).

[@nancy2214]

I was beginning to get anxious on how realistic her acting was👏🏻👏🏻😳AMAZING ACTRESS🎬

[@crumblefest]

Great subtitles...

[@nhmooytis7058]

As a kid I assumed she had died but somehow skipped ahead 20 years in the ‘fraction of a second’ before she actually died.

[@youdecide4709]

Thank you. I enjoyed it!

[@markclowe]

Okay, I'm not sure about the above description. There was no institution in this show. SPOILER!! If anything, she came back as a ghost twenty years later and everything was different. And her daughter turned out horribly (at least her mother would consider it so). This was really weird.

[@markclowe]

Okay, I've had a couple of hours to soften my reaction. I don't really think she would consider her daughter to have turned out horribly. She was a very loving mother and would have loved her daughter regardless of her surroundings. I am not a person who at 54 years of age has really watched any Bette Davis films at all, so I don't really know how she normally portrays a character. From the start, she seemed a bit whacky, stilted and surrealistic. She was constantly flitting about looking at everything around her, checking for dust and rearranging things to some ideal of perfection. Based on the above description, I was trying to figure out if she was already insane, or is this just how Bette Davis portrays a character... the manner with which she carried herself, her very precise diction, etc. Anyway, something bad happens to her character in the middle, but she seems to survive it, though you can tell things are suddenly different, and she reacts in an unusual way to things that seem outlandish. She just sort of goes with the flow, even though she walks home and suddenly it's all different, including the contents and the people in it! It's almost like a dream state. The ending was a bit sudden and disconcerting, almost like there were a few seconds missing or something. It seemed like a bad edit at a crucial spot, so I wonder if something happened there. It basically just resolves the whole thing in an instant and you realize what you've been seeing all along, but based on the description, I was sitting around waiting for her to be gaslighted into insanity and be carted off somewhere. It wasn't like that at all. :-) This definitely falls into the "Twilight Zone" category of things as you will read in other people's reviews of this item in other places on the internet.

[@edtalavera6523]

@@markclowe What planet did you come from.

[@saundramichael7968]

A (wrinkle) in time?

[@rosemariemann1719]

@@edtalavera6523 I think Marc Lowe's reaction was not unreasonable....seems quite a few of us couldn't completely figure it out.... 🤔🇬🇧💕🇬🇧🤔

[@just4music687]

Exactly esp. when the daughter states of the school owner that "she did her best for me. . . . after my mother was killed in a street accident." when clearly Bette, the mother is standing right there; WHAT HAPPENED!!!!

[@LINDABELLAMY-q3j]

😂😂😂😂😂😂im crying and laughing at the same.time who does the subtitles, they are a story in themselves. BETTY DAVIS O MY GOD SHES A GEM.❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@marilynnadeau2306]

...my my. What a terrifyingly horrible experience....imagine! Everyone here certainly has a heart for this fanominal actress who gave us all so much, and the subtitles I'm sure were a mistake and even though some complain, please keep up the good work. Some people may have forgotten what the definition of "rude" is, forgive them.

[@kathrynpertz7384]

Bette...one of the very best ❤

[@karenmcdonald7801]

Woth watching for thr subtitles alone LOL!

[@just4music687]

I thought I knew what was happening. . . but then the ending !

[@surreygirl2075]

Amazing Betty davis I read the book of this film and she played the part very well

[@monnie1027]

❤ this movie! Better Davis was an amazing actress!😁👍

[@kerryharding6463]

Thank you for your upload, if it’s possible could you try to upload her movie called “Dead Ringer” I haven’t seen it for years, Thanks again x

[@maria-fb4gu]

Maravillosa!

[@ricardomanuelpena6594]

I wrote about this before the subtitle don't match the film words,why is that?

[@LondonSambaDancerBellydancer]

I can easily see an effective updated version of this; with Kate beckinsale or Kidman, different lighting and approach in the characters…

[@MexicoDigDoctor]

If you need/want someone to translate this into proper English (or Spanish), I would do it for free (do you know what that would normally cost???). I am 65, fully bilingual, and have been a huge Bette Davis fan since childhood. I would never make this offer to snyone, but I am so happy that you uploaded this to those of us who have never seen it. Google around enough, and it is not hard to find me. I just don't want to put my info straight on here. 🤗🇲🇽

[@Kathleen-t8y]

Great acting ny a great actress 💞👍💯

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

Suspicion S1.E28 Fraction of a Second Episode aired Apr 21, 1958 1h After spending the weekend with her daughter, Mrs. Ellis takes her child to the bus depot. When she returns home, she finds her furniture rearranged and three strangers insisting that they own the house. 👍🏽💯🤗

[@jaimesilva6637]

En Español o Subtítulos X Favor Tengan Piedad de los Latinos 📽️🌹💖🎞️🎭🙏

[@j1947m]

I think that the whole thing was very strange; as if many scenes were shot, to be organized later but then weren't...and then the whole point was forgotten....and then they ended it.

[@miapdx503]

Yes, some interesting directoral stuff going on. But Ms. Davis still made it enjoyable.

[@patrickryan1515]

The old British Battle Axe with the cigarette in her mouth (a trademark) played in another Bette Davis vehicle, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" BTW, Bette exhibits herein quite a bit of the character of Baby Jane Hudson.

[@brigittepurnell9904]

Battle axe lol 😆

[@jdr1747]

the subtitles are hilarious

[@miapdx503]

There are basically three comments below; 1) they loved it 2) they hated it 3) subtitles! This was really creepy! It gave me anxiety. 😐 they really screwed up the ending. I'm mad at the director. 😠

[@sunnyadams5842]

Ok- The subtitles r where it's at if you want a major laugh. Too funny!!

[@footballcolleen6974]

I adore Bette Davis! She was the most honest actress the motion picture industry has ever known! Too bad Jack Warner took her for granted! She gave Warner Brothers the best years of her life and they treated her like dirt in the end! I hope Jack Warner is still burning in the hell where he belongs!

[@henryemrich7209]

This was actually pretty cool: If I followed this correctly (and yeah - the "subtitles" were abysmal) - she was either killed in the street accident, or displaced forward 20 years or so. The second "street accident" involving the same stack of wood was....a puzzling decision, to say the least.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

The bulk of the episode, was a "flash-forward" (similar to someone's life flashing before their eyes) just as they are about to die. The first and second shot of the vehicle accident, were of one and the same incident. It was actually VERY deeply thought through by the looks of things - better still than many modern Hollywood productions (though of course, not with the same production values). Her visions, could only summon certain extents of enquiry. She couldn't think for example, to check death records, as such a thing, would be too unpleasant.

[@MsBackstager]

I saw this a while ago --- very Twilight Zoney.

[@saundramichael7968]

4 sûre, a touch of Serling.

[@dorisbrinkerhoff8124]

I think she traveled ahead in time 20 years

[@saundramichael7968]

Coma or concussion?

[@patrickryan1515]

Yes, because you'll note at the very beginning of the film she references the decline of the neighborhood and the fact that one day all surrounding houses will become boarding houses, as did hers (in this fraction of a second).

[@thetrainwreck1469]

@@saundramichael7968 I think she was playing a ghost, or a spirit. How they will linger when they die unexpectedly and haunt the living. Their time is merely a 'fraction of a second' compared to mortal timekeeping. That's the best I could come up with. I was hoping for the concussion story,, but good old Bette wouldn't let us down that easily. There had to be a plot twist at the end. A real grabber.

[@billstewart9132]

She uses her gestures and movements as part of the dialog. It's fascinating just watching her doing the ironing.

[@JayGideon-7]

You must read the original story. Notwithstanding Bette's performance, the screenwriters did a hack job of conveying the story. The original is much more developed and satisfying.

[@nedraleggett6837]

I want to read the original story.

[@bettyj5502]

I didn't quite understand the end; did she die when she collided with the tractor? What happened with the maid and others?

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

Yes, she died. She had a "flash-forward" about 20 years, which is why everything had changed. Of course, nobody had reason to be aware of her - presumably she didn't think to bother to see it as "a future event", which is why no old records were sought - only up to date ones. Nobody had reason to recognise her, as it was already established that she had died. In her own subconscious, Bette Davis' character knew she was about to die, which is why her daughter didn't recognize her either. Perhaps it was the fright that was driving her to do what she was doing throughout the whole film?

[@TheWanderingFinnegan]

The captioning included with this film are so far off it's entertaining and hilarious all by itself. I might watch again, with the sound off, just for kicks. 😂

[@jackrobinson5974]

OMG, at first while reading the subtitles I thought this was a movie about schizophrenia. Then I turned up the volume. "we don't lose sir how what he leaveMonday mornings when you"re getting because hotter with the every time love..." gotta go milk the car and fold the chickens,.... firday ... help....

[@Lisa1111]

Life and the people in it 🤣

[@KellySwasing]

Great acting

[@georginafraser451]

I wonder why Betty Davis didn't start by asking what year was it. That would have helped slot. Was this a true story? I enjoyed it very much. Thank u !!!!

[@edgartriay8485]

What's with all the image zooming and scene liquid-like movements? It can make one nauseous.

[@henryemrich7209]

I'm pretty sure that was a side-effect of the post-processing that KZbin does after a video is uploaded. The weird liquid-like movement in the background is (I think) an error related to image stabilization (the algorithm attempts to keep a person - in this case Bette Davis - centered in the shot, and compensate for relative motion between the camera and the subject. I'm guessing that the original shot had more dynamic camera-panning or something of that sort - which the algorithm misunderstood as "shaky camera". As to the subtitles - holy damn, those were *abysmal*. Good story, and great acting by Bette.

[@edgartriay8485]

@@henryemrich7209 Thank you.

[@annprince5298]

I heard this as a play on the radio, she is knocked fdown , she awakes and it several years later she found her daughter did not recognise her thisbplaynisvdim8lar

[@LondonSambaDancerBellydancer]

It is much better as an audiobook. I don’t think this movies does the story justice.

[@englishincontext4025]

The subtitles are like a script for the Two Ronnies. "I'll finish this" translated as .. "History heart the pivotal movement". I think drugs are involved ... 😂😂😂

[@elizabethwutzke9040]

I'm so disappointed as I thought they'd come up with a much better ending...

[@drjanines3301]

What an intense episode. Why would her daughter not recognize her - that's weird

[@denisespurlock]

A little bit of a personality change from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.

[@patrickryan1515]

Watch more closely and you just may see a prelude of character to Baby Jane.

[@TheCalico72]

@@patrickryan1515 I was engrossed while watching, but I just don't see any similarities between Mrs Ellis and Baby Jane.

[@drjanines3301]

Most of Bette's lines are translated pretty accurately. She's the only one - her diction & cadence are nearly impeccable imho

[@RobertLizinski]

I just wonder why she didn't ask the doctor what year it was. If she had been told what year it was, it wouldn't have added up.

[@diannemiller1895]

Bizarre but of course Bette Davis was her superb brilliance.

[@justinkey3181]

It use to be such a pleasure to look out this window, it's the neighborhood it's not what it use to be, the neighborhood is a bit run down now, there will be roominghouses next. The rest of the people in the neighborhood are sloppy, they don't care what their house looks like. This is the last house around to be maintained with pride and care and dignity.

[@doracook6989]

What do these subtitles go to?.

[@audreydaleski1067]

She's home, and needed

[@mayranoguera838]

Wow that is so sad

[@saphiffertalbert1322]

Sitting down on my day off my first time, seeing this, I didn’t expect her to die at the end I expected her to be on conscience and waking up in the hospital, and it was all a dream. The joke is purely on me, me and my gray movies.

[@MK-hh1vo]

Spoiler alert 🧐

[@cbass2755]

Geez…who wrote the sub titles? Nothing close to what she’s saying

[@marvaharding796]

Sucks captions won't turn off

[@FreedomSpirit7]

I've never seen this. Bette Davis always a great actress. I was waiting for the Hitchcock music at the end. So the meaning of this in the fraction of a second she floated out of her body into all that. Did she die or was she just knocked out. Or did she come back into her body laying there on the street in the fraction of a second. Hmm.. 🧐 🤔

[@LisaRichards_123]

I don’t understand the ending at all. She came back from the dead? And then got hit by a car again?

[@jackrobinson5974]

@ 40:39 "What's your little girls' name? hangnail miss hewson." But the end was so sad. "to my got any ass." splat.... "of on I'm the a red on on %uh %uh 0 on on." So very sad......

[@pmullins1495]

03.01 Betty Davis' character apparently never owned an 'authentic Ostrich Feather Duster.' It's like a dust magnet, holds dust doesn't fling it about the room. :)

[@pmullins1495]

'Ya then simply vacuum it using Low Suction to prevent excess wear-&-tear on the duster.

[@NaturalElicia]

Whoever did these subtitles....

[@moalf5088]

Bette Davis the greatest actress. Always loved her. But, I don’t understand the ending. At first , I thought the pile of wood fell on her daughters car and she died and Bette went crazy not believing her daughter died and she escaped from the nut house. But, the daughter appears. She doesn’t recognize her mother? Who bought the house? Bette comes in to present time. Visits the daughter. Doesn’t recognize her? She lives and the same ending? I don’t understand it. What happened? How did she appear 20 years later? What am I missing?