I have longed loved this movie. Being from the south and being old enough to relate to the time and place, I found this movie to be fascinating and very well-acted. Also being an ardent fan of Tennessee Williams, I think he has a genius for depicting the transition of the old south to the south of the forties and fifties. Antebellum mansions in decay but not yet abandoned, old-south mores still clung to. I found it comical that, in 1956, such extreme words were used to describe this movie-lewd, lascivious, immoral as though the movie had invented such things. Apparently, the critics back then didn't have a clue about the south. Yes, we had lewdness, lasciviousness and immorality-as did the rest of the country. But we, at least, displayed them against a background more dramatic and more 'interesting' than anywhere else. "Baby Doll" wasn't just a movie. "Baby Doll" was the real south of the fifties .
