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The Damned Overview:

The Damned (1969) was a Drama - War Film directed by Luchino Visconti and produced by Pietro Notarianni, Ever Haggiag and Alfred Levy.

Academy Awards 1969 --- Ceremony Number 42 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best WritingStory by Nicola Badalucco; Screenplay by Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino ViscontiNominated
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The Damned BlogHub Articles:

Wanting More: The Open Ending of THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (1950)

By Jennifer Garlen on May 23, 2023 From Virtual Virago

WARNING! This post contains major spoilers for THE DAMNED DON'T CRY and other classic noir films. Proceed at your own risk. When I showed The Damned Don't Cry (1950) to my lifetime learners as the final film of our Joan Crawford series, they were especially struck by the open ending of the story, wh... Read full article

Joan Crawford: Possessed, The Damned Don’t Cry, Harriet Craig

By 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 9, 2023 From 4 Star Films

In our ongoing exploration of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’s filmographies, here are three more films building on Crawford’s renewed critical success in the 1940s after Mildred Pierce (1945) and Humoresque (1946). Possessed opens with Joan Crawford wandering the city streets past cable... Read full article

Day 8 of Noirvember: Ethel Whitehead and Lorna Hansen Forbes in The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)

By shadowsandsatin on Nov 8, 2021 From Shadows and Satin

Today’s Noirvember post shines the spotlight on one of my favorite Joan Crawford characters (and that’s saying something!): Ethel Whitehead – also known as Lorna Hansen Forbes – in The Damned Don’t Cry (1950). WHAT’S THE DAMNED DON’T CRY ABOUT? When unhappily married housewife Ethel Wh... Read full article

YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 6: The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)

By shadowsandsatin on Nov 6, 2020 From Shadows and Satin

If you know anything about me, you know that I love Joan Crawford. Her picture is in an art deco frame in my breakfast nook, and my wall is graced by a gorgeous Italian poster from her 1947 feature Possessed. Her face is the screen saver on my phone. And she’s the star of two of the YouTube noirs ... Read full article

Children of the Damned

By Rick29 on Oct 29, 2018 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Clive Powell as Paul. Children of the Damned (1964) is not a sequel to the 1960 science fiction classic Village of the Damned, but rather a rethinking. That's a good thing for the most part, as I'm not sure where a sequel could have gone. The second film takes the original's themes and extrapolates... Read full article

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The Damned Quotes:

Sophie Von Essenbeck: Nothing is impossible in this country.
Sophie Von Essenbeck: Don't fool yourself, however, Elizabeth. Don't dream of coming back one day to find a Germany which was so dear to your heart. It's finished, that Germany, forever. There will be no other Germany but this one, and you will not be able to escape it for it will spread before you know it all over Europe and everywhere!
Frederick Bruckmann: [to Martin] I'll make you pay for that, you little swine!
Frederick Bruckmann: I accepted a ruthless logic, and I can never get away from it!
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The Damned Facts
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite film. He called it "perhaps the greatest film, the film that I think means as much to the history of film as Shakespeare to the history of theater."
This was the first X-rated film to be shown on American network television, although heavily edited and in a late-night time slot.
First part of Luchino Visconti's German Trilogy also including Death in Venice and Ludwig.
Footage shot during the "Night of the Long Knives" sequence but never shown previously in the United States is restored in the 2004 DVD release. It is in subtitled German and expands the running time to 156 minutes.
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