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By Love Possessed (1961)

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Neurotic woman engages in an affair with the law partner of her impotent husband.

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Cast

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Marjorie Penrose
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Arthur Winner
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Julius Penrose (as Jason Robards Jr.)
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Warren Winner
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Helen Detweiler
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Noah Tuttle
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Dr. Reggie Shaw
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Veronica Kovacs
Gilbert Green ...
Mr. Woolf
Frank Maxwell ...
Jerry Brophy
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Bernie Breck
Jean Willes ...
Junie McCarthy
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Clarissa Winner
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Neurotic woman engages in an affair with the law partner of her impotent husband.

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affair | based on novel

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ALL OF THEM WERE BY LOVE POSSESSED! The bold best-seller that sent a fever through America now fires the screen!

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14 December 1961 (Netherlands)  »

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Besat af kærlighed  »

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In 1961, TWA began showing in-flight movies on a regular basis. This film kicked-off the program and became the first movie screened in-flight by an airline. See also Come September. But for the very first in-flight movie see The Lost World. See more »

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Referenced in Queer as Folk USA: Episode #4.3 (2004) See more »

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"Solamente Una Vez"
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Written by Agustín Lara
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Peyton Place wannabe is pale imitation...
19 June 2009 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

What can be more laughable than a film that attempts to skewer wasp hypocrisy and small-town stereotyping, but uses such stereotyping in it's presentation of characters? This is an unabashed attempt to gather the Peyton Place fans by bringing back Lana Turner to a New England setting in Autumn, along with the period Boy-Man of angst, George Hamilton. While Turner is so good that she can do this type of role in her sleep, and still come off well, the rest of the cast is pretty wooden, especially Efrem Zimbalist. It's easy to see why he could portray an FBI agent on TV so well.

Nothing more than a turgid melodrama, so popular at the time, filmed in color with a panoramic view so that it could lure the women of 1961 away from the B&W small-screen TV daytime soap operas, to see the exact same stuff on a big screen. Pass on it and get Peyton Place instead, unless you're a Lana Turner fanatic.


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