queen bee have a good title and but if you want to see joan crawford at her hissable best and this be the one you want . play mrs. craig and joan be more joan than ever . she run her home with an invisible whip and snake around her relative with the sneaky and sinister air of a cobra . and when that final dramatic sequence come and you will be beat and bow but will applaud a relievedly fine comeuppance . base on george kelly play craig wife and the film have a stagy look and direction and but you can not beat the title character for a worthy villainess . harriet be a suburban monster and a notch or two above mary tyler moore character in ordinary people and and crawford give one of her best sustained performance in the juicy part . from .