Beloved Infidel (1959)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Henry King

Writers:

Sy Bartlett (writer)
Gerold Frank (book)

Release Date:

22 January 1960 (Finland)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife...

Plot Keywords:

Asylum | Alcoholism | Writing | Hollywood | Columnist

Cast

Gregory Peck	...	F. Scott Fitzgerald
Deborah Kerr	...	Sheilah Graham
Eddie Albert	...	Carter
Philip Ober	...	John Wheeler
Herbert Rudley	...	Stan Harris
John Sutton	...	Lord Donegall
Karin Booth	...	Janet Pierce
Ken Scott	...	Robinson
Buck Class	...	Dion
A. Cameron Grant	...	Johnson
Cindy Ames	...	Miss Bull

Runtime:

123 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Netherlands:6 | West Germany:16 (f) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Sheilah Graham suggested Richard Basehart for the role of Fitzgerald.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: Studio lights and shades reflected in the window of Sheilah's apartment the first time Scott visits during the evening.

Movie Connections:

Features That Night in Rio (1941)

Soundtrack:

I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)

King not at his best.

Henry King is a master of making a storybook love movie;but when it comes to biography,(with the exception of "the song of Bernadette" which owed a lot to Jennifer Jones)his art becomes ineffective:in spite of two great actors,nothing works here.The scene on the beach where Kerr tells everything ,warts and all, turns up at the most awkward moment:why does she feel compelled to tell the whole truth when things are working so fine for her?Besides,Gregory Peck is much too famous and too "straight" to portray FSF successfully,we never forget he is Gregory Peck:he's so handsome it's impossible to believe he is an out-and-out alcoholic. Oddly,King's swansong the following year was a FS Fitzgerald adaptation, "tender is the night' but Jones had become too old for the part and it was a disappointment.