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28 March 1962 (France)
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The Bold Story Of A Man Caught Between Two Strange Loves!
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Ghost is an idealogical musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds that compromise himself...
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Between experiment and mainstream.
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(Complete credited cast) | Bobby Darin | ... | John 'Ghost' Wakefield |
| Stella Stevens | ... | Jess Polanski |
| Everett Chambers | ... | Benny Flowers |
| Nick Dennis | ... | Nick |
| Vince Edwards | ... | Tommy |
 | Val Avery | ... | Frielobe |
| Marilyn Clark | ... | Countess |
| James Joyce | ... | Reno |
| Rupert Crosse | ... | Baby Jackson |
| Cliff Carnell | ... | Charlie, the saxophonist |
| Richard Chambers | ... | Pete, the trumpeter |
 | Seymour Cassel | ... | Red, the bassist |
| Dan Stafford | ... | Shelley, the drummer |
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103 min
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Montgomery Clift was originally going to play the lead role of Ghost.
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Coming after "shadows" and preceding "a child is waiting" ,"too late blues" is some kind of arithmetic mean between them.Not overtly avant-garde ,but never really mainstream,unlike the 1959 movie ,it has a screenplay and most of the dialogues are not improvised:actually they sometimes seem "carefully" written.
Stella Stevens gives a wistful sad performance ,diametrically opposite to later parts such as those of "girls girls girls" (!)or 'the silencers".Her singing -or that of the singer who dubs her?- looks like a moaning which stunningly blends with the boys' music.
"Too late blues" keeps a rather loose plot,but "a child is waiting "would take its "conventional " side and tighten it up:as a result ,Cassavetes would disown "a child..." and go back to less accessible works such as his debut.