Terrible. Made as a pilot for a television series that never materialized "Della" cast an over-the-hill and obviously down on her luck Joan Crawford as a rich widow holding out against some property developers who want to buy her land, (her close-ups all seem to be photographed through gauze). Although she's playing the title role she's billed as a 'Special Guest Star', the actual 'stars' being Paul Burke as a hotshot attorney and a hardly seen Charles Bickford as his father. Others involved in this rubbish are Diane Baker as Crawford's daughter who has the hots for Burke and Richard Carlson as Burke's older brother, (blink and you might miss him). The director was the hugely untalented Robert Gist. Actually, it's almost too weird to be a total right-off; at times it feels closer to 'The Twilight Zone' than it does to 'Peyton Place'.
Review of Della
