Title: Landmark drama for a 50s film
Product review: MEMBER OF THE WEDDING was a landmark in an era when movies were still sentimental, melodramatic, or else full of spectacle in order to compete with television as it was coming of age. It was innovative in that it kept its faithfulness to the stage play and didn't sell out to standard Hollywood fair. Broadway's finest plays often have had more of an intellectual appeal, and therefore Hollywood often times had to "adjust" them to make them marketable to general audiences who weren't so intellectual. (Just check out the way the early 50s film of THE GLASS MENAGERIE nearly destroyed the Tennessee Williams play, or the way producers had to mercilessly sanitize the late 50s film of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.) The uniqueness of this play/movie is that it not plot driven but rather more character driven; not a lot happens, yet strongly and brilliantly fleshed out characters make it a masterwork, and that's the nature of the piece.
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