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Director:
Clifford Odets
Writer:
Clifford Odets (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
December 1959 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
When Jo Morris' marriage turned sour and heartless, she found sympathy and companionship with widower Larry Ellis... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
a second-rate B movie with a pure "Hollywood" ending more (10 total)

Cast

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Rita Hayworth ... Josephine Brown / Jo Morris

Anthony Franciosa ... Victor Santini
Gig Young ... Larry Ellis
Mildred Dunnock ... Mrs. Ellis
Hugh Griffith ... Judge Edgar Neilsen
Sanford Meisner ... Phil Stanley
Robert Burton ... District Attorney Nordeau
Alfred Ryder ... Lt. Mike Morris
Katherine Squire ... Mrs. Hattie Brown
Raymond Greenleaf ... Judge Carey
Myrna Fahey ... Alice
Leo Penn ... Morrie Goetz
Sheridan Comerate ... Ofcr. Francis Morris
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Dana Andrews ... Det. Lt. Mark McPherson (voice) (archive footage)
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
123 min | USA:118 min (FMC Library Print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #19493) | Finland:K-16
Company:
Jerry Wald Productions more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Victor Santini: He's been with the judge twenty minutes. What could he be saying to him? more
Soundtrack:
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5 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
a second-rate B movie with a pure "Hollywood" ending, 25 August 2001
Author: bergsy-2 from Maryland USA

This movie is pretty disappointing. Rita Hayworth and Gig Young are, each in a different way, completely unconvincing in roles that portray characters so dumb and passive that it would be hard to play them really well. The long denouement, their trial for murder, is boring and inferior to a standard Perry Mason. How Odets did a movie this trite is a puzzle. For a while I had hopes of a surprise ending, a la "Witness for the Prosecution" -- but Tony Franciosa is not Charles Laughton and the heartwarmingly straight ending is so unsurprising that I was surprised by it.

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