Bette Davis | Of Human Bondage (Drama, 1934) by John Cromwell | Movie (Colorized)

The Love That Lifted a Man to Paradise......and Hurled Him Back to Earth Again.
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold, unfeeling waitress who might ultimately destroy them both.
Black & White original version: • Of Human Bondage (Roma...
Original title: Of Human Bondage (1934)
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Director: John Cromwell
Writers: Lester Cohen, W. Somerset Maugham, Ann Coleman
Stars: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee
Genre: Colorized classics, Drama, Pre-Code, Romance
Budget: $403,000
00:00 Full Movie
02:38 Struggling artist receives harsh criticism and faces personal challenges, while also teaching a class on foot deformities.
07:34 A dramatic exchange between characters at a tea shop, leading to a date at the Victoria station for a movie night.
15:05 Drama unfolds as characters navigate complex relationships and emotions, love, rejection, and self-discovery
34:08 Philip struggles with love, marriage, and sacrifice, while Norah seeks comfort and understanding.
41:43 A dramatic scene unfolds as characters navigate complex relationships and emotions.
47:58 Philip struggles with his feelings for Mildred and seeks solace in Paris.
54:12 Drama unfolds as characters navigate love, marriage, and regret
1:00:06 Relationships become strained and emotions run high in the movie 'Of Human Bondage'.
1:10:34 Philip faces rejection, illness, and the plea of a desperate woman.
1:17:44 A dramatic scene unfolds as Sally contemplates marriage with Philip, who struggles with his feelings.
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[@beverlybradley5485]

I utterly adore the late great Bette Davis, she’s my favourite actress, class act love anything she’s in, my youngest son watched his first Bette David movie with me recently he’s 27 and said he couldn’t keep his eyes off her, and found her acting mesmerising, he hadn’t seen anyone like her before, he thought she wasn’t beautiful but there was just something about her that he loved, my favourite actor is Jimmy Stewart, although there are great actors from my generation but they had just that star quality that is lacking today, think it’s called style !

[@hopscotchdays]

Bette should have won the Oscar for this movie!!!

[@joecastillo4884]

She did, but it was by proxy. Bette was nominated the year after this movie was eligible for nomination. The movie she won for was a watered down version of this one.

[@mr.daytonameth3296]

@@joecastillo4884i don’t even think she was formally nominated. she was a write in nominee

[@joecastillo4884]

@@mr.daytonameth3296 Correct. Bette was a write-in nominee for "Of Human Bondage". The official history books of the Academy Awards, do not acknowledge the nomination.

[@ianedwards4400]

Once again, this colorization job is to die for. Bette Davis looks so sweet as a young girl.

[@user-pe1ds4uo3b]

In

[@user-pe1ds4uo3b]

👮🏻‍♀️👮🏻‍♀️ Tanya and Olya

[@JustanotherLisa]

She is not at all . Very fugly woman . But back then women were not good looking at all . So she was considered the best of the worst.

[@robertoayala4722]

Esta pelicula es una verdadera obra de arte, la habia visto antes por primera vez en blanco y negro , pero en color es excelente ,una obra del cine antiguo con grandes actores y actuaciones maravillosas El drama de esta pelicula es una historia que podria ser actual en cualquier espacio de tiempo y lugar , Un hombre que sufre dolor y humillacion estar enamorado, apasionado y manipulado por una mala mujer , un hombre que con determinacion y valor logra finalmente romper esas terribles cadenas y alejarse de su maldad, y al final encuentra a una joven que si vale la pena y la cual lo hara muy feliz !!! Gracias por subirla a internet FELICITACIOES!! y gracias una vez mas !!!

[@tundraportal]

Whether it's KZbin themselves or the person who runs this channel, extra thanks for adding subtitles.

[@Kathleen-ol2qm]

The thing I liked best about this movie is that there were no censors when it was filmed. It was much more honest than movies "sanitized" to protect some people's sensibilities. Bette Davis in her early years was quite striking. Her eyes always were, of course. Her acting was quite good in parts of this.

[@eddyalvarez8351]

Could you explain the whole “no censor” movies

[@Whoisager]

Incredible film. Better than films made today for sure.

[@phil3830]

One of the all-time great female actresses.

[@mariafilip7982]

Iubesc filmele vechi . Bette Davisi , era supra numită ,, frumusețea inteligenței "". Mulțumesc frumos pentru acest film bun !

[@helenapereira8547]

Bette Davis was one of a kind

[@elianamarinho9542]

Bette Davis & Leslie Howard ♥️.Midren is very bad and selfish, while Philips is a good and kind man, a gentleman. Even with his disability it would be easy to love him🥰

[@SnezanaDimitrijevic-cx2to]

Betty Davis genijalna, najbolja u sceni kada je besna, uzima noz i unistava sve oko sebe...U takvim ulogama je perfektna

[@clarissa2102]

"If you don't take me out, someone else will." My favorite line.

[@Freckles0948]

Ah I immediately know what I’ll be watching. 😮 Leslie Howard, perfect vulnerable, helpful loving doctor. Betty takes advantage of this perfectly. Now that I watched this years later, I pick up on so many principles always a great lesson and new ones to carry with you. Life changing movie and you can’t say that about many today.. ❤ Gaslighting is also teaching me something new each time I watch it. And I always have a place in my heart for Butterfield eight. ❤

[@olganovella233]

Que grandes actores: Bette Davis y Leslie Howard... Gracias por subir esta película ❤

[@SaaharaGlaude]

Never seen this colorized. Of course, read the book. Bette nailed this! Excited to see it in color. Gotta' love KZbin!! Thanks for uploading this💛

[@user-pe1ds4uo3b]

🎉

[@ms.suzylee2932]

I remember when I was young, a guy telling me when it comes to romantic partners one always loves the other more. So naturally I was floored when I heard this concept here, in this film.🤍🩶🖤

[@wandaantonia]

Li esta obra escrita pelo grande escritir inglês Somerset Maugham. É um ARRASO de tão estupendo e uma grande lição a todos os envolvidos no Drama. A obra representa um grito de Libertação/Liberdade que deve ser inerente a cada ser humano! Com a magnifica Atriz Bette Davis, o filme deve ser magistral!

[@froilan453]

Me hizo llorar esta película tan antigua como de cie años!!!! Un obra de arte. Maravillosa. Muchas gracias por traerla. Saludos cordiales desde Chile

[@ianedwards4400]

So very thrilled to know that this classic has been restored and colorized which will grab viewers by the dozens. I have seen the black & white version of this classic in the 1962 version with Kim Novak and Lawrence Harvey and enjoyed it, since Ms. Novak is a top fave of mine. I must watch this original, duly colorized, at home when I have free time. I'm sure it will be a peach, despite the sordid theme.

[@user-wo8gq3pp7t]

Ils sont beaux tout les deux ,on envie que cela fonctionne entre eux, merci pour ce beau film!🎉❤

[@MegaZzyyxx]

Mil gracias!!!...antes el cine era arte, después negocio...mil gracias otra vez!!!

[@fflubadubb]

I like the colorized version !

[@nibrasalomar7677]

The body language of genius Bete Davies ❤

[@vanessarubinidellarovere]

Vederlo a colori è stato ancora più bello. Gli attori spettacolari ❤

[@debralerner8298]

one of the great highlights of the movie is where bette davis says to leslie howard the line wipe my mouth wipe my mouth she is cool she is the great bette davis noone can do a line like she can!!!!!🙂🙂🙂

[@denisefarmer366]

Best scene in the whole movie. 👍

[@debralerner8298]

@@denisefarmer366bette davis nomatter what movie she played in had so many great scenes but this one has always stood out it is a classic🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂!!!!

[@denisefarmer366]

Dark Victory is one of my favorites. So many others... Jezebel, All About Eve. I think she was under appreciated.

[@user-zf1kz2ur3v]

Фффффффффффф😊 1:00 ф

[@user-zf1kz2ur3v]

Оставьте меня в покое!!!!!!😮

[@biba350]

Can't wait Thanks for uploading

[@mikesilva3868]

John Wayne: The sky is blue. The grass is green. Get off you butts and join the Marines.😅

[@Georgemartinoneffex.com33]

This drama is very emotional 😢but I love this so much ❤

[@jasminmohdzain]

Thank you for uploading this. Nice one !

[@laerciofarias1271]

Grande clássico! E colorizado , ficou maravilha. Obg ! 👍👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹

[@normazarr3106]

Because she has those mean, Cruel, and Menacing BDass, Betty Davis EYES! What a Marvelous Witch in this one! (Quite Young), to Start her Long Career off with! She played it out to the End! Butt we Loved ❤ her for it RIP! BETTY-D! GBU.,SM.,NZ., ✌❤🙂🙏🏿🤗

[@jeffreycone7504]

She sounded just like Margaret Hamilton when she ransacked Philipps apartment and carved up his paintings.

[@JustanotherLisa]

I don’t get the hype about her eyes, they’re some of the ugliest eyes I’ve ever seen. And her face is very rough . She’s really not good looking at all . She had to be a good actress. Her looks wouldn’t have gotten her anywhere

[@truth8307]

Actually she wasn't very young here, she was already 26, she started late.

[@Kathleen-ol2qm]

​@@truth8307 Really?! She still looked so very young (not that 26 is very old, of course).

[@truth8307]

@@Kathleen-ol2qm I mean she look younger than 26.

[@darknight2133]

Acho a Bette Davis muito linda nesse filme...❤❤❤obg por postar...

[@tiamatxvxianash9202]

Man's inherent insecurity at times can become very detrimental towards our search for love and companionship when we've become beholden to another. Our lust towards what dreams may come with our chosen partner can all too often be smothered by a perverted infatuation, until obsession finally brings on an eventual fatal attraction. And as this story shows, only death can free us from this self-destructive process. Of Human Bondage is one of the most haunting yet liberating stories of those of us that have embarked down a blinded Lover's Lane.

[@ivoneferreira3462]

Lindo de mais amei grata por postar.

[@mariasenteno7606]

Philip is a good man ,and the paper that Bettie Davis is super but it is sad to see a good person taken advantage of.

[@corallewis3093]

Bette Davis and Jimmy Stewart are the best ever actors in my book..

[@philanthe5592]

Merci pour ce chef-d'oeuvre du cinéma universel.

[@brendadufaur37]

I thank you for the stream. I do prefer the black and white version.

[@freedolphin3077]

Beautifully done 👍

[@poetcomic1]

From the beginning he comes to her dragging his club foot to be humiliated and tortured. It is clearly self-hatred and masochism. There is never any normal period to their relationship.

[@patriziacappozoli4072]

Bellissimo film e grandi attori

[@loenicastro6289]

Belíssima película! Gracias por compartir!

[@cojaysea]

That was goooooood . Thanks

[@starquant]

An interesting side note to the film. Skeletons were almost always female and came from a roaring trade in India. Seems like the families didn't want the burden of funeral expenses for females and did this to them instead. I don't know if the practice was banned, but it did become obsolete with the advent of plastic skeletons.

[@irenemagill4890]

Having been to India I was told bodies are placed in the Ganges when people didn't have money for creamating first -I saw this myself. Done further there were those who would take the corpses out and take anything left off the skeleton and sell them. The belief is if ones remains go in the Ganges one does not have to reincarnate.

[@starquant]

@@irenemagill4890 While what you said is true, I'm talking about a practice where women's bodies were actually sold for profit.

[@stuartbritton4811]

Today it's men who are the skeletons, mistrusted, ignored and left for dead. Especially the old ones. You don't have to go far to see that's true.

[@starquant]

@@stuartbritton4811 Ironic then how the overwhelming majority of people who end up dumped in nursing homes are women and don't give me "they live longer crap" because the difference is around 5 years and does not account for the massive imbalance. I also don't continue to give oxygen to troll accounts with no subscribers and content.

[@mlentz1975]

Loved It 💙

[@michelebarbieri4932]

E' un magnifico film, su uno dei temi più tormentosi fra le ossessioni misogine maschili. Ma le ossessioni non sono senza fondamento: sono il risultato di esperienze... Bisogna vedere anche la versione di Somerset Maugham.

[@mikesilva3868]

Crow: She's sort of aliveTom (as Fozzie): "Frog and a bear, together again! Wocka wocka wocka!"😅

[@saraswatkin9226]

I cannot believe she was so beautiful in her youth.

[@monnie1027]

Awesome movie😁👍

[@elenaelena935]

Bună, un film foarte frumos dar și trist, mulțumesc mult! ❤

[@littlewolf4737]

My grandfather use to work on Betty's house in New Hampshire mountains!

[@yuditgamez3775]

Vette Davis fue considerada la actriz más dramática de la cinematografía de todos los tiempos en Hollywood

[@Olegzyan]

Great movie!

[@marisagonzalez8533]

El corazón tiene razones que la razón no entiende.

[@jaengen]

Mildred was such a sweet, wholesome, placid and selfless girl who would do anything for you with no thought for herself. In other words, a girl you would want to bring home to your mother.

[@MariaFernanda-dr7pv]

Great Put movie of Joan Crawford pleaseeee Joan was amazing too❤❤❤

[@surreygirl2075]

Trevor Howard looks so young in this film and Betty davis looks pale and beauiful and sad love story he cared and she was cold and unkind

[@sookie4195]

I would imagine that filming with that shoe lift caused pain to Leslie Howard’s back and hip.

[@zoli-mariuspadvai5613]

Trebuie să-l văd. Mulțumesc!

[@beatrizferreira7809]

Increíble, que malvada, excelentes actores

[@mikesilva3868]

Great 😊

[@mariamehes1436]

Köszönöm.❤

[@gailcowling7291]

They don't make movies like they used to 😅😅

[@rjmcallister1888]

A great cast; not always the case at RKO. Several of them were on loan from other studios. Of course, a fine score from Max Steiner. The colorization works well here.

[@isabelhuszka]

valamelyik sztáregyüttesnek volt egy ilyen dala: Bette Davis Eyes...

[@SpaceCadete101]

I love the probable iron deficiency being described as a "middle aged cough", perhaps he prescribed Bovril?

[@juliadavidson1538]

Great borderline depiction

[@user-px2mu1rd5b]

I can’t help but notice how all these old movies HEAVILY promote SMOKING CIGARETTES. PIPES, CIGARS. Cool.

[@tulaghosh5448]

Nice movie

[@susanjon8119]

Charming story I don't mind 😂😂😂

[@user-tx1kk1li3p]

Bella película.

[@Morrissey_04]

❤❤❤❤❤ Love Bette Davis

[@MariaFernanda-dr7pv]

great! put a movie of Joan Crawford,pleaseeeeeee

[@user-ko7bb5kh4i]

English Ale is excellent!

[@yuditgamez3775]

I likes see the movie quien yace en mi tumba with Betty Davis

[@darwinjesus865]

Wow este flime 😢e muito bom mesmo

[@truth8307]

With this movie, All About Eve, What Happened to Baby Jane and the 2 they gave her, she deserved 5 Oscars. I think she is the best actress while Sophia Loren is the greatest.

[@jofreluizpadilhaduartejofr5251]

Filme realístico muito bom 😂

[@phungam8421]

Phim có phụ đề tiếng Việt cho tôi nhé

[@QuadriviumNumbers]

Women have never been any different! She's portraying modern woman to a tee! The grinning jezebel, The best scene was 1:18:50 finally a moment when she wasn't talking...."Good riddance to bad rubbish!"

[@user-kd7jz2ke9f]

l'amour fou ne mène qu'à la misère et le désespoir car on est son prisonnier...mais qu'aurait t on fait pour cette beauté sauvage et ces yeux ensorcelants..l'amour vous prend tout et ne vous laisse rien..c'est ça le prix à payer pour l'avoir vécu...

[@user-kd7jz2ke9f]

très beau film avec de très grands acteurs..surtout la belle et ensorcelante bett Davis.

[@dudamarthe8044]

la pire chose est de ne jamais en faire l’expérience 😢 On n'existe pour personne...

[@kurtaguiar]

No Brasil esse filme recebeu o título de Escravos do Desejo.

[@user-px2mu1rd5b]

Bette Davis was beautiful as a young girl as you can see in this movie.

[@PeaceInChrist23]

Wow. Well, that was a toxic, drawn out, pointless "friendship"...

[@christineedwards8618]

You know? She had ....listen.......?" wipe my eyes...whatyya mean, We, Lone Ranger... " miss her? "Crying Love!

[@daryljackson3430]

It’s nice to see her without a cigarette in her mouth all the way through the film.

[@mariafilip7982]

Filmul , este ecranizarea romanului Robie , de Somersset Maugam .❤

[@agatajasica1367]

Super że z napisami polskimi, łapka

[@IcarusLhooq-bc7uq]

Too much pride to take money from the guy she chose but not too much to take it from the guy she d already rejected ... 🤦‍♀️ fellas dont chase women who arent interested in you wow . They ll hate you for it even if you look good when they re in trouble.... she s human after all... she human OH no ...this poor sweet man and his sweet GF .

[@ilovemovies725]

Qui a appelé ce film "De la servitude humaine", traduction littérale du titre américain (titre d'ailleurs intéressant en effet)? Sauf que le titre français du film a toujours été "l'emprise". C'est sous ce nom qu'il est sorti en france dans les années 30 et qu'il a toujours été connu.

[@DOI_ARTS]

She's got Bette Davis eyes no she's the real Bette Davis

[@gledba]

Guy was a simp. The one he proposed to if you watch, the guy in the last scene knew her. Hel'll be a simp for life.

[@user-ys7oc3xh6c]

" of human bondage " this is the title

[@johannarocho3040]

Both of them had thyroid condition!

[@lionsolidkhan8270]

Such such were the joys When were we girls and boys

[@user-yh2ro9kj2y]

PONGAN PELICULAS NUEVAS DE BETTE DAVIS SIEMPRE PONEN LAS MISMAS...YA LA VI POR KZbin EN EL 2014.. PONGAN NUEVAS DE LA DAVIS..

[@ianedwards4400]

This 30's version with Bette Davis seemed like a sanitized version of this sordid tale. In the 1962 version with Kim Novak, the scenario was more stark, brutal and honest, though not for the weak-stomached. While Bette served tea and cake and looked like a Dresden doll, Novak's version was that of a cheap tramp in a seedy pub with lecherous looking man in a seedier part of London during the 30's. Everyone of those characters looked like they needed a batch badly. While the 30's version implied that Davis' character had some lung infection, Novak's diagnosis was plain syphilis, a consequence of her life has a prostitute. There was nothing clean about the 60's version. While Leslie Howard essayed the complete gentleman despite his shortcomings , Lawrence Harvey looked more like a road-side pimp. Honesty, I enjoyed the Bette Davis version. There was also a version with Eleanor Parker made sometime in the 50's, that also wasn't very pleasant to watch.

[@ianedwards4400]

The men needed a bath badly [correction]

[@anamariarivasteran7256]

👍🏻👍🏻✨️⭐️👏🏻🇵🇪🙋🏻‍♀️

[@user-jv6km5vh8j]

love hurts people should not play with it

[@brunosamppa]

60fps... Please, don't.

[@antonijadragoje4910]

Excellent, but book was better. I've read it twice👍🇭🇷