A good movie and Dean was great!

I agree. It was different but very good. And it was a good choice to film it in b&w. Gave it an even more dramatic touch.
Love the looks Dean and his sister exchange in the end before he leaves. You could so tell how they both felt about the horrible thing the other sister had done to him and the inevitable family break-up she had caused.
Strong performances indeed.

I love this movie :)

I pull it out and watch it about once a year, just for the performances alone.



"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than..a rude remark or a vulgar action" Blanche DuBois

I don't agree. He ruined the movie for me. Paul Newman would have been soooo much better. I have reason to believe Dino was pretty much drunk throughout filming. Listen carefully, and yup, he slurs a couple of words and in some scenes, he seems unsteady on his feet. His element was TV variety, where viewers accepted such revolting behavior.

I don't know about him being drunk and I didn't notice him slurring words or unsteady, etc., and I didn't think he was great in the role. I just thought he was woefully miscast -- he didn't fit the role at all, although his acting was passable.
I just saw this movie yesterday for the first time in decades and had forgotten most of it, but was blown away by Page's performance, as I have been by most of her work over the years. Wendy Hiller was great but didn't have nearly as much screen time or as many lines or meaty dialogue as Page. Page stole the show, by far, and without overacting in the slightest. She was superb.
The plot was hard to understand the first time, so I watched it again before deleting it from the DVR. It was very sparse with the main plot details regarding the reason Julian got $150,000, and I have no idea what he meant when he said it was split with another guy so they each got $75,000....which wouldn't leave him much after paying off the house and buying the tickets for Europe and stocking their bank account with $20,000, and buying all the gifts for the sisters, etc., and I wanted to know if the supposed swampland he sold the mean tyrant was really useless swampland and did the tyrant know that or find it out later?
It was also unrealistic and contrived for Lily to have actually gone so far as to call the husband of the woman that her husband was with to ask him to ask his wife to "give me one more year with Julian"...