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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Jean Rouverol (written by) (front Jack Jevne) &
Hugo Butler (written by) (front Jack Jevne) ...
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Release Date:
1 August 1956 (USA) more
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Tagline:
In the dark, when I feel his heart pounding against mine - is it love? or frenzy? or terror?
Plot:
Millicent Wetherby is a middle-aged woman whose life is devoid of love and affection. Millicent's solitary... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
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(2 articles)
The autumn leaves of red and gold
 (From Roger Ebert's Blog. 8 November 2009, 6:40 PM, PST)

Spillane's Secretary In Kiss Me Deadly Dead At 84
 (From WENN. 15 April 2009, 3:00 PM, PDT)

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Superb Aldrich melodrama. more (28 total)

Cast

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Joan Crawford ... Millicent Wetherby

Vera Miles ... Virginia Hanson
Lorne Greene ... Mr. Hanson
Ruth Donnelly ... Liz Eckhart
Shepperd Strudwick ... Dr. Malcolm Couzzens
Selmer Jackson ... Mr. Wetherby
Maxine Cooper ... Nurse Evans
Marjorie Bennett ... Waitress
Frank Gerstle ... Mr. Ramsey
Leonard Mudie ... Colonel Hillyer
Maurice Manson ... Dr. Masterson

Cliff Robertson ... Burt Hanson
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Way We Are (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
107 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Virginia: Sure, he should be committed!
Milly: Of course, you'd want me to commit him, get him out of your life, put him away permanently someplace where he can never again remind either one of you of your horrible guilt; how you and you had committed the ugliest of all possible sins, so ugly that it drove him into the state he's in now!
Mr. Hanson: What kind of a woman are you to be satisfied with only half a man? There must be so...
Milly: Even when he doesn't know what he's doing, he's a saner man than you are! He's decent and proud. Can you say the same for yourselves? Where's your decency? In what garbage dump, Mr. Hanson? And where's yours, you tramp?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Outrageous! (1977) more
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17 out of 20 people found the following comment useful.
Superb Aldrich melodrama., 4 July 2003
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Author: benjulia from Kilmarnock, Scotland

Fine performances from Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson give this taught drama more emotional resonance than might be expected from the plot summary. Crawford is superb - all huge eyes and trembling lips, she makes the relationship with Robertson's character believable and moving. The tentative start to the relationship is especially effective.

Burt Hanson's mental deterioration is quite graphically portrayed and at one point, I have to admit, I was peering through my fingers at the screen. It was purely by chance that I stumbled across this movie on late night television. Despite being a fan of classic movies all my life, I had never heard of this one and I have to say that I'm surprised. It deserves to be better known.

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