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From the Terrace (1960)
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Release Date:
9 September 1960 (West Germany)
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An ambitious young executive chooses a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling personal life in exchange for a successful Wall Street career. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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(3 articles)
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entertaining trash
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Paul Newman | ... | David Alfred Eaton |
 | Joanne Woodward | ... | Mary St. John / Mrs. Alfred Eaton |
 | Myrna Loy | ... | Martha Eaton |
 | Ina Balin | ... | Natalie Benzinger |
| Leon Ames | ... | Samuel Eaton |
| Elizabeth Allen | ... | Sage Rimmington |
 | Barbara Eden | ... | Clemmie Shreve |
| George Grizzard | ... | Alexander 'Lex' Porter |
| Patrick O'Neal | ... | Dr. Jim Roper |
| Felix Aylmer | ... | James Duncan MacHardie |
| Raymond Greenleaf | ... | Fritz Thornton |
 | Malcolm Atterbury | ... | George Fry |
| Raymond Bailey | ... | Mr. Eugene St.John |
| Ted de Corsia | ... | Mr. Ralph W. Benziger |
 | Howard Caine | ... | Creighton Duffy |
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149 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Canada:18A (video rating) |
USA:Approved (certificate #19577) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15
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Howard Caine's movie debut.
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Continuity: During the billiard game between Mr. MacHardie and Alfred, as MacHardie lines up for his shot, the red ball disappears.
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Alfred Eaton:
First he is going to look us over to find out whether we're sufficiently respectable. Then he is going to look me over to find out whether my halo's bright enough to qualify me for one of those desks of his at number 25 Wall Street. An aging fortress of banking integrity.
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Serenade in Blue
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It's not nearly as much fun as "The Long, Hot Summer", but how could it be when it's loosely based on an O'Hara novel (which means that it has to be turgid, self-important trash). But it's still fun. In some ways it's even more enjoyable to see how they've butchered O'Hara's novel, since they leave out more than half of it and cast Newman as a sort of hero (damaged by personal tragedy), instead of having him be a contemptible loser (as he was in the book). There are a lot of these late 50's to early 60's movies that were based on "organization men" stories from the 50's ("Cash McCall", "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit", and "From the Terrace" being those that pop to mind), and every one of the movies mangled the books. Interestingly, I think that the one that was closest to the book, TMitGF, was by far the worst movie. It's odd on reflection how similar these books are, and how randomly different the movies are. I don't know if all of the writers suffered from existential nausea or if it was just that this sort of thing sold books, but I never saw it get to the screen.