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12 March 1965 (West Germany)
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Carroll Baker is the Fury. George Maharis is the Force. Sylvia is the Explosion!
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Sylvia West is a young poetess engaged to Frederic Summers, an eccentric millionaire. Summers, a man who always fears he is being loved for his money...
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It loses steam half-way through.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Carroll Baker | ... | Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle) |
 | George Maharis | ... | Alan Macklin |
| Joanne Dru | ... | Jane (Bronson) Phillips |
| Peter Lawford | ... | Frederic Summers |
| Viveca Lindfors | ... | Irma Olanski |
 | Edmond O'Brien | ... | Oscar Stewart |
| Aldo Ray | ... | Jonas Karoki |
 | Ann Sothern | ... | Mrs. Argona / Grace Argona |
| Lloyd Bochner | ... | Bruce Stamford III |
| Paul Gilbert | ... | Lola Diamond |
| Nancy Kovack | ... | Big Shirley |
| Paul Wexler | ... | Peter Memel |
| Jay Novello | ... | Father Gonzales |
| Connie Gilchrist | ... | Molly Baxter |
| Alan Carney | ... | Gus |
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115 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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According to her autobiography, lead actress Carroll Baker was concerned about the film's script early in production and requested that a new writer be hired. The front office suggested she involve herself with only "girly" concerns, such as choosing the correct handbag for each scene, then stocked her studio dressing room with dozens the next day. Baker responded by slinging them out the door one by one, and later wrote, "Sylvia turned out to be one woman who never carried a handbag."
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Referenced in Mulholland Dr. (2001)
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Love and Learn
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The movie begins well enough and we think we will deal with some Preminger-like mystery ("Laura" "Bunny Lake is missing" "Anatomy of murder") or even a Mankiewicz extravaganza ("the barefoot comtessa").One of the first scenes in the library with Viveca Lindfords is intriguing.The books play a prominent part and there's a strange children's omnipresence.
Then the accumulation of melodramatic elements and the abuse of flashbacks end up wearing thin .Interest only occasionally comes back:Ann Sothern's barfly act,her entry in the posh restaurant ,for instance.Carroll Baker only appears in flashbacks in the first hour which preserved her mystery charm.Then,when the private meets her,it peters out.And it's not hard to guess the ending.