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Director:
Writers:
John T. Kelley (writer)
John O'Hara (novel)
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Release Date:
3 December 1965 (Finland) more
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Tagline:
The names and places didn't matter . . . only when! more
Plot:
A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
Trash with many notable TV stars more (14 total)

Cast

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Suzanne Pleshette ... Grace Caldwell Tate
Bradford Dillman ... Sidney Tate

Ben Gazzara ... Roger Bannon
Peter Graves ... Jack Hollister
Bethel Leslie ... Amy Hollister

Carmen Mathews ... Emily Caldwell
Linden Chiles ... Brock Caldwell
James Gregory ... Dr. O'Brien
Ruth White ... Mrs. Bannon
Mark Goddard ... Charlie Jay
Sarah Marshall ... Connie
George Furth ... Paul Rutherford
Virginia Christine ... Emma
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
John O'Hara's A Rage to Live (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
101 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
According to pre-production publicity, Anne Bancroft was originally sought for role eventually played by Suzanne Pleshette. more
Quotes:
Grace Caldwell: All right, you win. You get your dull little story off your big manly chest, but you make it fast, huh?
Roger Bannon: Right.
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Roger Bannon: From the first time I saw you -- and that was five years ago, when I worked for Lanigan and Doyle -- I haven't been able to stop looking. Not that I wanted to stop. Looking at you became one of the big pleasures of my life. Maybe the biggest. It got so I had you memorized...
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Soundtrack:
Rage To Live more

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3 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Trash with many notable TV stars, 30 October 2004
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Author: Gary James from United States

I caught "A Rage to Live" on the fly while switching channels. The film was not very good. I thought it was a lower-grade version of the lush, trashy, morality tales like Butterfield 8. (Both movies were based on novels by John O'Hara.) Suzanne Pleshette does her best as the nymphomaniac who tries to overcome her insatiable appetite towards men.

What got to me while watching this movie was how many of these actors appeared in other TV programs. Starting with Ms. Pleshette (The Bob Newhart Show) Bradford Dillman, who plays Pleshette's husband (according to IMDb, he's appeared in over 90 TV programs), Ben Gazzara (Run for Your Life), Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible), Mark Goddard (Lost In Space), James Gregory (Barney Miller), Virginia Christie (Mrs. Olsen in the Folger's Crystals coffee commercials of the 60s and 70s), and, in an uncredited role, Brett Somers (Match Game, The Odd Couple). Even director Walter Grauman is known in television as a workhorse. He's credited with directing over 200 television movies and shows.

In the end, I did not have much fun watching this turgid drama but it was lot of fun playing TV trivia.

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