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Writers:
William Gibson (play)
Isobel Lennart (screenplay)
Release Date:
24 November 1962 (USA) more
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a square from Nebraska? an off-beatnik from Greenwich Village? It just didn't figure... that they would... that they could... that they did!
Plot:
Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
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The rusty mechanisms (and theatricality) of the plot is saved by the leads... more (17 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Robert Mitchum | ... | Jerry Ryan |
 | Shirley MacLaine | ... | Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz |
 | Edmon Ryan | ... | Frank Taubman |
| Elisabeth Fraser | ... | Sophie |
| Eddie Firestone | ... | Oscar |
| Billy Gray | ... | Mr. Jacoby |
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119 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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UK:12 (DVD rating) | Spain:15 | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 (new rating: 2001) | Ireland:PG | France:U | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved | UK:PG (video rating) (2004) | UK:X (original rating)
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Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman were both set to do this film but when Taylor became ill during the early filming of Cleopatra (1963), Newman was able to do The Hustler (1961) instead. more
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Gittle pours milk into a pan so she can make warm milk - but she only leaves it on stove for about five seconds. more
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Referenced in The Sound of Music: From Fact to Phenomenon (1994) (V) more
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Gitana more
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The frustrating loop-de-loops of an uncertain love relationship between a Greenwich Village kook-dancer and a Midwestern suit-and-tie lawyer on the verge of divorcing his wife of 12 years. Obviously derived from a stage play, as the lines of dialogue have not been reworked for the screen. It's awfully pedantic; for instance, we know the characters' names, they know their names, so why do they keep saying to each other, "Jerry?", "Yes, Gittle?" "I'm sorry, Jerry." "I know, Gittle." The performances by Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum are excellent (we like them even before their self-doubting, insecure characters take shape), but this stage-vehicle hasn't been turned into a star-vehicle, and the leads banter back and forth in a curiously under-populated vacuum. There are compensations: the black-and-white cinematography is terrific and Andre Previn's "Apartment"-like music is rapturous. *** from ****