Robert Wise directs Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine in this spicy and poignant love story about a free-spirited Greenwich Village girl who hooks up with a brooding Nebraska lawyer. In HD... Read allRobert Wise directs Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine in this spicy and poignant love story about a free-spirited Greenwich Village girl who hooks up with a brooding Nebraska lawyer. In HD.Robert Wise directs Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine in this spicy and poignant love story about a free-spirited Greenwich Village girl who hooks up with a brooding Nebraska lawyer. In HD.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 4 nominations total
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaShirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum began a love affair that lasted for years during the shooting of this film.
- GoofsGittle pours milk into a pan so she can make warm milk - but she only leaves it on stove for about five seconds.
- Quotes
Jerry Ryan: It's true. Half of me hasn't even been in this town.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I tried Jake.
Jerry Ryan: Of course.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: So we're both flops.
Jerry Ryan: No. Not both of us. Not you. I've tried to make you over so you'd be more like me - like everyone, I guess. Stingy, holding back, guarding what we have because we've got so little. Everything you get, you give back double. No, you're not a flop. You're a gift, infant. Underneath that beautiful face there's a street brawler. But underneath that there's someone... that no one, nothing has ever dirtied. The way people were meant to be. That's what you are.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)
Well it started right away. This thing was shot in B&W anamorphic, and shot beautifully. The opening shots drew me in for their wide angles and good framing and nice dramatic lighting(ie what normal people call a good mood setter)... noirish in some respects. And then it sucked me right in.
Maybe because it started on the stage and the scenes were so long but the dialogue was so well crafted that you just had to pay attention.
Maybe the fantastic real life portrayals by M&M - not straying nor betraying.
But I found myself constantly wanting to talk some sense into Jerry and Gittel -- ah thats what cinema is -- the desire to find out how it ends. And what an ending it is... I'll leave it at that.
I give it a 10 because it maybe is among the very best of this category - the "realistic character dialogue romance featuring two very odd strangers (think Stewart and Novak in Vertigo)". Shot well, acted well... kept me glued to the end. I give it 10 and not 9 because well, without spoiling it -- they didn't go where they could have gone. And I think that most audiences won't understand that final point once they see it. Thats a shame. But those who understand will agree - brilliance all around.
10 from me. And thats saying a HELLUVA lot.
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- Oct 6, 2005
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- Spiel zu zweit
- Filming locations
- 149 W 4th St, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Peacock Restaurant exterior)
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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