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James M. Cain (novel)
Matt Cimber (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
5 February 1982 (USA) more
Tagline:
From the author who gave you "The Postman Always Rings Twice"..."Double Indemnity"..."Mildred Pierce" ...Now, his most powerful and daring love story comes to the screen! more
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Orson Welles, as judge Rauch, holds a lengthy trial against Jess Tyler, a caretaker deserted by his wife ten years before... more | add synopsis
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Won Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations more
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"Slumdog Millionaire" Big Winner At Golden Globes; Winslet Wins Two; Rourke Makes Comeback Win
(From CinemaRetro. 11 January 2009, 8:03 PM, PST)
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What would James M. Cain have thought?? more (10 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Stacy Keach | ... | Jess Tyler |
 | Pia Zadora | ... | Kady Tyler |
 | Orson Welles | ... | Judge Rauch |
| Lois Nettleton | ... | Belle Morgan |
 | Edward Albert | ... | Wash Gillespie |
| James Franciscus | ... | Moke Blue |
| Stuart Whitman | ... | Rev. Rivers |
| June Lockhart | ... | Mrs. Helen Gillespie |
 | Ed McMahon | ... | Mr. Gillespie |
| Paul Hampton | ... | Norton |
 | George 'Buck' Flower | ... | Ed Lamey (as Buck Flower) |
| Ann Dane | ... | Janey Tyler |
| Greg Gault | ... | Bridger |
| John O'Conner White | ... | Billy Roy |
 | Peter Jason | ... | Allen |
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107 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | USA:R | West Germany:16
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IT'S WRONG FOR ME TO LOVE YOU more
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Adaptation of James M. Cain's book "The Butterfly" won Pia Zadora a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer before anyone had even screened the film, setting into motion an awards-show controversy that is far more interesting than anything in this movie. Shabby potboiler has a sexy teenager in 1930s Arizona reuniting herself with a man who may be her long-lost father; that doesn't stop her from seducing him, which leads to dirty doings, a murder, and a final act in the courthouse (with Orson Welles as the judge!). Co-screenwriter Matt Cimber also directed the picture, but he fails to create a depiction of this time and place that is half-way realistic, preferring to let Zadora's sexual antics carry the load. She isn't terrible, yet her cameo in "Hairspray" a few years later far exceeds anything she does here. *1/2 from ****