It was consistently easy to see where this was going, except for a bizarre segment at the end that doesn't fit in at all.
Julie (Joan Bennett) thinks she's in love with bookish Ives (Henry Fonda), and chases him so assiduously we get why avoids her. Then she impulsively runs off to Paris to marry alcoholic intellectual snob Michael (Alan Marshal), without a word of explanation to Ives.
A decade later, after her husband has been fatally shot at a party -- "such a silly way to die" -- Julie returns to Vermont, with a daughter in whom she seems to have absolutely no interest. At first, Ives shuns her. Then he allows himself to be similarly stalked by an obnoxiously conniving student (you know, the type -- she calls her rich father dahling), only to decide that it's Julie he still wants to marry after all. He makes this transformation without ever bringing up the topic of her egregious betrayal.
Along the way we have to put up with sundry annoying characters from Ives's family, not one of whom has ever heard of a boundary.
Can't say really, why I watched this till the end. Fonda, I guess, for his usually intelligent screen presence. I've also been sick at home, so I was somewhat of a captive audience...
Julie (Joan Bennett) thinks she's in love with bookish Ives (Henry Fonda), and chases him so assiduously we get why avoids her. Then she impulsively runs off to Paris to marry alcoholic intellectual snob Michael (Alan Marshal), without a word of explanation to Ives.
A decade later, after her husband has been fatally shot at a party -- "such a silly way to die" -- Julie returns to Vermont, with a daughter in whom she seems to have absolutely no interest. At first, Ives shuns her. Then he allows himself to be similarly stalked by an obnoxiously conniving student (you know, the type -- she calls her rich father dahling), only to decide that it's Julie he still wants to marry after all. He makes this transformation without ever bringing up the topic of her egregious betrayal.
Along the way we have to put up with sundry annoying characters from Ives's family, not one of whom has ever heard of a boundary.
Can't say really, why I watched this till the end. Fonda, I guess, for his usually intelligent screen presence. I've also been sick at home, so I was somewhat of a captive audience...