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Susan Ertz (novel)
Meade Roberts (writer)
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Release Date:
March 1963 (UK) more
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WHY DID SHE GIVE HER LOVE TO A STRANGER...? (original print ad - all caps)
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After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple (Jane Fonda and Arthur Hill), the bored... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Peter Finch ... Murray Logan

Jane Fonda ... Christine Bonner

Angela Lansbury ... Sybil Logan
Arthur Hill ... Sam Bonner
Constance Cummings ... Mrs. Nina Gellert
Alexander Knox ... Frederick Bonner
Nigel Davenport ... Leonard Groves
John Le Mesurier ... Dr. Arraman
Alec McCowen ... Dickie Bayliss
Valerie Taylor ... Lily Kendrick
Andreas Markos ... Andreas
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George Coulouris ... (scenes deleted)
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89 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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"In the Mood for a Nap", 25 June 2002
Author: Poseidon-3 from Cincinnati, OH

This is a pretty strange little film about an illicit affair between a married man and his best friend's wife. Finch is the man, a publisher, who finds himself drawn to friend Hill's much younger wife. Finch's wife is a virtual shut-in, played by Lansbury. She suffers from the effects of a car wreck (shown in flashback, in which she looks OLDER than present day!) Fonda is the young lady married to Hill who suffers from emotional problems, lung difficulties and the ugliest hair ever to hit the silver screen. She is downright scary in this film! Her make-up is done in such a severe way and her hair (a hideous "fall", actually) is so unflattering and Orry-Kelly decks her out in an increasingly bizarre set of clothes and atrocious hats that the film becomes a sort of fashion horror movie! Fonda, so attractive in the films before and after this one is made to look like a total freak. At least the unflattering, ugly clothes are something to focus on because the story and the romance between her and Finch is deadly dull. The one bright spot is Lansbury. Though her character is foolish and unreal, she steals every scene she's in, looks terrific (though she keeps obsessing about a "scar" which is almost completely impossible to see!) and when she exits the film, she takes the life right out of it. She gets off a few wisecracks and displays a sexier figure than she often got to show. Cummings is wasted in a very small role. Apart from her first scene, she gets virtually nothing to do or say. The film is watchable for it's Grecian scenery and for the camp value of watching the May-December maneuverings of Finch and Fonda. The music score is exceedingly annoying and the short running time often feels like twice that. Sherwood appears very briefly...the film definitely could have used more of her.

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