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Director:

Matt Cimber

Writers:

James M. Cain (novel)
Matt Cimber (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:

5 February 1982 (USA) more

Genre:

Crime | Drama 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

Plot:

Orson Welles, as judge Rauch, holds a lengthy trial against Jess Tyler, a caretaker deserted by his wife ten years before... more | add synopsis

Awards:

Won Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations more

User Comments:

What would James M. Cain have thought?? more (10 total)


Cast

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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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Additional Details

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Par-Par Films more


Fun Stuff

Soundtrack:

IT'S WRONG FOR ME TO LOVE YOU more


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What would James M. Cain have thought??, 5 April 2007
3/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

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 ****

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