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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Joanne Woodward | ... | Leola Boone | |
| Sheree North | ... | Isabelle Flagg | |
| Tony Randall | ... | Jerry Flagg | |
| Jeffrey Hunter | ... | David Martin | |
| Cameron Mitchell | ... | Troy Boone | |
| Patricia Owens | ... | Jean Martin | |
| Barbara Rush | ... | Betty Kreitzer | |
| Pat Hingle | ... | Herman Kreitzer | |
| Robert H. Harris | ... | Markham (as Robert Harris) | |
| Aki Aleong | ... | Iko | |
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Jim Hayward | ... | Mr. Burnett |
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The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
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backyard barbecue | suburbia | american dream | husband wife relationship | dysfunctional marriage |Taglines:
John McPartland's Explosive Novel That Tell-Tales on Young Married America!Genres:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
30 October 1957 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Mulher do Próximo See more »Filming Locations:
15281 W. Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Edit
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$995,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)Color:
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(uncredited)
Music by Lionel Newman
Lyrics by Carroll Coates
[The song first played and danced to at the Flaggs' dinner party, then played later when Troy rushes home after finding out about the Police Chief job]
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Troy's television is a 1957 Zenith. See more »Soundtracks
The Drive-In Rock(uncredited)
Music by Lionel Newman
Lyrics by Carroll Coates
[The song first played and danced to at the Flaggs' dinner party, then played later when Troy rushes home after finding out about the Police Chief job]
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Author Mrb1980 is in the right direction, but this film is a small masterpiece. It remains rare in dealing with the tragedies of consumerism as a way of life ruthlessly led by the nose by the big companies and the advertising industry.
Though it's subject is a serious one, No Down Payment has more narrative drive and excitement than most thrillers. I still remember the shatteringly moving central performances of Joanne Woodward and Cameron Mitchell nearly 50 years later. The film was - and is - revelatory about what intelligent popular cinema could and can do. It made a tremendous evening at the pictures.
As I think about it, I could weep for the state of America film now. Far worse than McCarthyite blacklisting (which presumably caused one scriptwriter to be credited under a false name) is Hollywood's effective blacklisting of writers and directors with any true perceptions of real life, so that modern equivalents of No Down Payment such as Groundhog Day are a rarity and cynically connected feel-good rubbish is the norm.
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