I should note that I haven't read any of John O'Hara's works. O'Hara came to my attention when I saw "From the Terrace", starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, based on one of O'Hara's novels.
So now I've seen "A Rage to Live", based on another one of O'Hara's novels. Suzanne Pleshette plays a promiscuous woman whose affairs upset the lives of everyone in her town. It's bound to draw controversy nowadays, since she accepts the advances of every man (she could MeToo all of them!).
Without a doubt I'd have a better sense of the movie had I read the book (which I probably never will, since it takes me a long time to get through books). I suspect that the movie was more shocking in 1965 than nowadays. As it stands, the movie is interesting - fine acting and the Academy Award-nominated costumes - but kind of flat.
Whenever Peter Graves's character appeared, I blurted out one of the lines from "Airplane!".
So now I've seen "A Rage to Live", based on another one of O'Hara's novels. Suzanne Pleshette plays a promiscuous woman whose affairs upset the lives of everyone in her town. It's bound to draw controversy nowadays, since she accepts the advances of every man (she could MeToo all of them!).
Without a doubt I'd have a better sense of the movie had I read the book (which I probably never will, since it takes me a long time to get through books). I suspect that the movie was more shocking in 1965 than nowadays. As it stands, the movie is interesting - fine acting and the Academy Award-nominated costumes - but kind of flat.
Whenever Peter Graves's character appeared, I blurted out one of the lines from "Airplane!".