So thats what a slut is
Thats the way it goes first your money and then your clothes.
shareMs. Pleshette played one of the most beautiful sluts ever. You have to admit that, right?? She is so much prettier in this movie than she was in "The Birds" where I think she was made-up to look kind of hard and care-worn.
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She is drop-dead gorgeous in "Rome Adventure", "Youngblood Hawke", and "Fate Is the Hunter". IMO she could really give Liz a run for her money.
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She is gorgeous in this movie. She has the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen.
shareI totally agree, guys. She is drop dead gorgeous. When I saw this movie, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. This was the sizzling 60's. Not many movies would attempt to go that far. I really think it was better than Butterfield 8.
shareAnother kindred spirit! Funny, "Rage" and "Butterfield" are both by O'Hara! I haven't read "A Rage to Live", but I've read a number of books by John O'Hara; he's a wonderful storyteller. The problem with the "Butterfield" movie is that they made it contemporary, instead of a period piece. The book reeks of early 30s New York, and they really ruined the flavor of it in the movie. Have you read "Rage"? I'd love to hear some comments. I checked the internet a while back, and I think O'Hara wrote it in 1949.
Two other books by O'Hara that I recommend: "Hope of Heaven" and "Appointment in Samarra".
"If ah irritate you, jes think how ah irritate mahself."
The adaption of John O'Hara's novel is poorly done here. The impression is that the novelist just took the money and went home, and had nothing to do with
the script. Because the movie tells a very different story. The movie gives us a cardboard cutout nympho with no "control" switch. The novel shows a more
complex person -- a lifelong daughter of wealth and privilege, with limited experience of being denied anything, and with little or no concept of why her
whims should be thwarted. And that straight-arrow brother (Brock)is, in the novel, a stalwart ally with secrets of his own, who helps her avoid consequences. In fact, most of Grace's social circle tend to close ranks with
her. And face it -- hubby Sidney Tate is an Outsider when one must choose sides. Sidney does not leave her; he dies just as he is about to take that step. She winds up moving away, but it is the town that makes that advisable. Her circle of friends are still there.
Good script, maybe. Bad O'Hara.
cmvgor
"A man does what he has to do-if he can't get out of it. - Bret Maverick's Pappy
But fab-u-lous Pleshette!
Very little O'Hara has been faithfully translated to screen. My God, look at "Butterfield 8", which is one of the most fascinating 20th Century novels I've ever read. Not so the movie.
"Don't worry. I'm not on the side of the saints yet."
if anything is more beautiful than Pleshette in this movie it is the awesome package Gazarra shows.
shareI remember reading in the novel Gloria is running Leggit's toothbrush under the hot water in the bathroom sink and she's thinking "I could have caught any disease imaginable and here I am worrying about germs on his toothbrush."
shareI saw this movie in college and it made an indelible impression on me. Although I cannot recall the music, I remember the effect it had on me, and there is a line which I remember, but cannot recall. It contained the title words, and was something like "...a rage to live." I wish this would come out on DVD. Maybe if enough of this ask for it, maybe it will.
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