Posted: 2/19/08 at 10:22am
This hot mess of a film was on MGM HD the other day and I'm not ashamed to admit that I adored every overwrought second of it. Candice Bergen aside (she didn't really seem to learn how to act until the late 70s/early 80s), the women in this film actually keep you invested in the clunky soap opera of a plot, although Sidney Lument directs in this herky-jerky style that cuts and jumps from scene to scene at a rapid pace. Often characters will be talking about something that's about to happen and then we jump cut to a scene of people talking about said event AFTER it happens.
It's a treat to see Jessica Walter, Shirley Knight, Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan(!), etc so young, especially Walter, who looks like a million bucks throughout.
The stylized 60s version of the 30s looks fantastic in HD, so I highly recommended seeing it in that format if you have the chance.
There's psychoanlaysis! There's the clash of liberal vs conservative! There's breast-feeding! There's lesbianism!
Anyone else a fan?
