The Chapman Report (1962)

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ... See full summary »

Director:

George Cukor

Writers:

Wyatt Cooper (screenplay), Don Mankiewicz (screenplay) (as Don M. Mankiewicz)

Stars:

Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda

Nominated for 4 Golden Globes.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.	...	Paul Radford
Shelley Winters	...	Sarah Garnell
Jane Fonda	...	Kathleen Barclay
Claire Bloom	...	Naomi Shields
Glynis Johns	...	Teresa Harnish
Ray Danton	...	Fred Linden
Ty Hardin	...	Ed Kraski
Andrew Duggan	...	Dr. George C. Chapman
John Dehner	...	Geoffrey Harnish
Harold J. Stone	...	Frank Garnell
Corey Allen	...	Wash Dillon
Jennifer Howard	...	Grace Waterton
Cloris Leachman	...	Miss Selby
Chad Everett	...	Bob Jensen
Henry Daniell	...	Dr. Jonas

Storyline

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four women (Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters and Glynis Johns) with four separate sexual hangups, ranging from frigidity to nymphomania. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. plays a researcher who becomes entangled with Fonda, the young woman suffering from emotional frigidity.

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Plot Keywords:

man wears a swimsuit | bare chested male | medical | sex | sexual exploitation | 

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Taglines:

The personal story behind a sex survey ... from the controversial best selling novel.

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Warner Brothers filled the film's male roles with Warner Brothers Television contract leads who received no extra money to do the film.

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Goofs

On the beach when Glynis Johns is using a tape recorder while on an orange blanket, she gets very frustrated by Ty Hardin's beach football fellow rowdies that she gets up and moves. Next camera break she is using a yellow blanket.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Dr. George C. Chapman: Section four, Column one, Question.
Paul Radford: Ten per cent of the married women were strongly aroused, twenty-seven per cent, somewhat; and Sixty-three per cent, not at all.

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Connections

Featured in Women He's Undressed (2015)

User Reviews

More an expose of its director's proclivities than an expose.

When I saw this during its theatrical release, primarily because I was a fan of the Misses Glynis Johns and Claire Bloom, though I'd been forewarned by reviewers that it was just as trashy as its best-selling source, I was somewhat appalled that the esteemed George Cukor had consented to direct it. Hindsight tells us that it may have been the numerous young hunks in the cast who ensnared that Hollywood master's interest in assuming the directorial reins. (His personal preferences were not as widely known, outside of Hollywood's insiders, anyway, at the time of this film's production.) Glynis gives it a lively go but the rest of the cast would probably prefer that we not remember their participation in this embarrassing dud. I think I saw it as part of a double feature (Those were the days!), and though I don't remember its companion at that viewing, I suspect I found it somewhat more worth the price of admission.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 October 1962 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Chapman Report

Filming Locations:

Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

125 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1