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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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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
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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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Delirious and intoxicating... more (27 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| 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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The Way We Are (USA) (working title)
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107 min
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Norway:16 | USA:Approved (PCA #17762) | West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
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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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Referenced in Outrageous! (1977) more
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Autumn Leaves more
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Once director Robert Aldrich got around to shaping her latter-day career, Joan Crawford did some very good films, this being one of them. Absorbing nonsense is gusty and often ridiculous...still, I wouldn't have it any other way. Crawford is quite strong here playing a single woman making her living as a stay-at-home typist; she marries much-younger Cliff Robertson, a pathological liar, and quickly discovers the many secrets he has in his murky past. Florid melodrama is filled with fruity dialogue and overheated set-ups (like the infamous thrown typewriter), fluttering hands and fluttering eyelashes. A trashy delight, and sure to please soap buffs. *** from ****