It is not very good.
Pretty corny white bread movie about morals in a Smalltown, USA. Even for its time it was out of date. The comparisons others make with "Peyton Place" aren't even close. Even if those were the morals of the day (and I am not sure they were), it is weak and overdone.
Starring Sandra Dee and John Saxon, it is pretty clear why neither of them had much of a career. The talent is just lacking.
The directing (by first timer in America Helmut Käutner) is so weak and schmaltzy you have to wonder what the film could have been in the hands of a Wyler or a Wise or a Capra. As a weak, black and white film in 1958, it just smells of Universal cutting corners as a trial vehicle for their new contract player, Sandra Dee. You have to wonder what could have been.
The saving graces of this movie are the sub-par performance of a couple of otherwise great actors: Teresa Wright and James Whitmore. Weak by their usual standards, but the best the movie had to offer. Better to spend your time with any other Teresa Wright or James Whitmore movie.
You will never get your 90 minutes back.
Pretty corny white bread movie about morals in a Smalltown, USA. Even for its time it was out of date. The comparisons others make with "Peyton Place" aren't even close. Even if those were the morals of the day (and I am not sure they were), it is weak and overdone.
Starring Sandra Dee and John Saxon, it is pretty clear why neither of them had much of a career. The talent is just lacking.
The directing (by first timer in America Helmut Käutner) is so weak and schmaltzy you have to wonder what the film could have been in the hands of a Wyler or a Wise or a Capra. As a weak, black and white film in 1958, it just smells of Universal cutting corners as a trial vehicle for their new contract player, Sandra Dee. You have to wonder what could have been.
The saving graces of this movie are the sub-par performance of a couple of otherwise great actors: Teresa Wright and James Whitmore. Weak by their usual standards, but the best the movie had to offer. Better to spend your time with any other Teresa Wright or James Whitmore movie.
You will never get your 90 minutes back.