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5.4/10   127 votes
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Director:
John Sturges
Writers:
James Gould Cozzens (novel)
Charles Schnee (writer)
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Release Date:
5 January 1962 (Finland) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
ALL OF THEM WERE BY LOVE POSSESSED! The bold best-seller that sent a fever through America now fires the screen!
Plot:
Neurotic woman engages in an affair with the law partner of her impotent husband. | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
It's sweltering hot out
 (From Roger Ebert's Blog. 12 July 2009, 7:02 AM, PDT)

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Possessed by what? more

Cast

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Lana Turner ... Marjorie Penrose

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ... Arthur Winner

Jason Robards ... Julius Penrose (as Jason Robards Jr.)

George Hamilton ... Warren Winner
Susan Kohner ... Helen Detweiler
Thomas Mitchell ... Noah Tuttle
Everett Sloane ... Dr. Reggie Shaw
Yvonne Craig ... Veronica Kovacs
Gilbert Green ... Mr. Woolf
Frank Maxwell ... Jerry Brophy

Carroll O'Connor ... Bernie Breck
Jean Willes ... Junie McCarthy

Barbara Bel Geddes ... Clarissa Winner
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Additional Details

Runtime:
115 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16

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Trivia:
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 (1961). But for the very first in-flight movie see 'Lost World,The (1925)' qv) more
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5 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Possessed by what?, 12 April 2006
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Author: pljewkes from Boston, MA

Awful. BY LOVE POSSESSED is a really horrendous movie --- a soap opera completely devoid of style and class. Lana Turner cheats on husband Jason Robards Jr. by having an affair Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Turner obviously likes good lineage, but that's still one junior too many! The characters drink a lot and ride horses and live in absurd houses on acres and acres of land. Zimbalist's ne'er do well son is played by George Hamilton. He's being blackmailed by party girl Yvonne Craig while trying to get something started with débutante Susan Kohner. The less said about Hamilton's acting the better.

Turner and Zimbalist are dreadful and Robards is saddled with the absurd task of playing a drunk. He acts and acts and acts. As Zimbalist's patient wife, Barbara Bel Geddes emerges unscathed. Directed by a clearly derailed John Sturges.

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