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A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student who prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student who prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student who prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 4 wins & 10 nominations total
Max Showalter
- Roger Doremus
- (as Casey Adams)
Rico Alaniz
- Knife Thrower
- (uncredited)
Cheryl Anderson
- Alma as a Girl
- (uncredited)
Lon Ballantyne
- Orderly
- (uncredited)
John Barton
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Ray Beltram
- Cantina Patron
- (uncredited)
Marjorie Bennett
- Saleslady
- (uncredited)
Dick Bernie
- Drummer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaHal Wallis Productions bought the film rights to the play in 1952, shortly before its Off-Broadway revival, for $100,000.
- GoofsWhen Nellie Ewell first comes to Alma's house, Nellie's ponytail changes from waist length to mid back length in between shots.
- Quotes
John: Eternity? What does it mean?
Alma as a Girl: It's something that goes on and on - when life and death and everything else, is all through with.
John: Aw, there's no such thing.
Alma as a Girl: Oh, but there is. It's what people's souls live in. When they leave their bodies.
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Featured review
A haunting treatment of a Tennessee Williams drama, fraught with repressed, deeply felt emotion. Geraldine Page gives a riveting, heartbreaking performance.
Set in a small, insular town in the deep South, this is a gripping drama of miscommunication and repressed passion. Geraldine Page's powerful performance becomes progressively more harrowing as her character, the spinsterish Miss Alma, struggles to forge a connection with the man she has always loved--the handsome, dissolute son of the town's respected doctor (Laurence Harvey, perfectly cast). In the process, lives are forever changed--in ways none of those involved could have predicted. Page is simply incredible in this movie, delivering a climactic soliloquy that will leave you emotionally shell-shocked.
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- Sommer und Rauch
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- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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