This has to be the most saddest ending to a movie that I have ever seen. It was wonderfully portrayed by Lana Turner.

I got a little teary at the end which is rare for me also. The only other movie that I got teary at was the Titanic docufilm A Night to Remember.

It didn't quite make me cry, but I found it extremely gripping. The person I watched this with teared up during that scene, which is fairly rare for my friend.
This is a superb melodrama with outstanding performances, direction and script, and it covers all the bases I love: film noir, travelogue, romance and soap. 9/10 stars from me.

Ah yes, never to be forgottenhorribly, painfully sadI too bawl uncontrollably.
Moulin Rouge (1952) is the only other film that tops it for meactually evokes audible sobs along with the flood of tears about midway into the film and does not release you until the end.

The tears flow for at least the last 10-15 minutes . . .from the time she stands up at the defense table and cries "take my life" through her time on the witness stand " I wasn't suitable, I really wasn't, I see that now" all the way to the end, telling her son when he marries it's important for them to live alone (in other words don't make the mistake I made) and calling him "child" I've seen this movie dozens of times and each time I tell myself this is the time I won't cry but I always do.

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