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Overview

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6.6/10   87 votes
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Director:
Daniel Petrie
Writers:
George Emerson Brewer Jr. (play) and
Bertram Bloch (play) ...
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Release Date:
16 October 1963 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
Do you know what they say about Laura Pember...? They say she uses men like pep-up pills!
Plot:
Mike, a famed racing driver and an old flame of hers, is worried that Laura may be ill. Tricking her into a doctor's examination... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Good re-working of classic material, with one critical misfire more

Cast

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Susan Hayward ... Laura Pember
Michael Craig ... Dr. John Carmody
Diane Baker ... Ellen
Edward Judd ... Mike Bannerman
Paul Rogers ... Dr. Eric McKenzie
Robert Bacon ... Peter
Paul Stassino ... Dalporto
Jerry Desmonde ... Colonel
Ellen McIntosh ... Miss Kendall
Gwen Nelson ... Hospital Sister
Peter Madden ... Reynolds
Joan Young
Joan Newell ... Mrs. Hewitt
Chet Baker ... Himself
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Summer Flight (USA)
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Runtime:
USA:97 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Company:
Barbican Films more

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Movie Connections:
Version of Dark Victory (1976) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Good re-working of classic material, with one critical misfire, 7 June 2002
Author: Thad Taylor (psthad@yahoo.com) from Palm Springs, California, USA

A very intelligent screenplay by Jessamyn West, updating the classic 1939 "Dark Victory" (which in turn was derived from the 1934 Broadway play of the same name). Although some of the character structuring is changed (the best friend of the protagonist now becomes her younger sister, for example) and the geography moves from NYC, Long Island and Vermont to London and the English countryside, still the basic story and message remain intact - to use one's life to achieve something of value. My only complaint, and an ambivalent one to be sure, is the casting of Susan Hayward in the lead. Although this legendary actress does a terrific job with the part, she was simply too old for the role at the time. (In "D.V.", the doomed heroine was 23, in this picture Hayward was already 45 - so her untimely death seems a little less tragic, the talk of having children with her much-younger doctor-husband is less credible, etc.); overall, however, a perfectly sound film, with some truly lovely photography of the Kentish countryside and the Cornish coast.

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