For Suzanne Pleshette ,this film was certainly an act of self-renewal : she was generally cast as the good girl on the screen ("a Rome adventure , "distant trumpet" and her unforgettable part of the teacher in "the birds" ) or on stage (she replaced Bancroft in "the miracle worker" ).
Here she 's not really a bad gal though :"I can't help it" she ceaseless says ; she 's what you've got to call a nymphomaniac ; the main originality is that she plays a part which is generally reserved for male actors . But it's not really woman's lib,it's rather compulsion .
The film is in need of a great director (remember what Elia Kazan did in the first part of "splendor in the grass" or even Delmer Daves in " a summer place" ); the events are too hurried for comfort and it sometimes look like a pilot for a TV series ;besides who could believe Bradford Dillman is a farmer? Always dressed up to the nines ,at least we saw Warren Beatty work in dungarees in "splendor in the grass".Both Ben Gazzara and Peter Graves are given undeveloped parts.
Here she 's not really a bad gal though :"I can't help it" she ceaseless says ; she 's what you've got to call a nymphomaniac ; the main originality is that she plays a part which is generally reserved for male actors . But it's not really woman's lib,it's rather compulsion .
The film is in need of a great director (remember what Elia Kazan did in the first part of "splendor in the grass" or even Delmer Daves in " a summer place" ); the events are too hurried for comfort and it sometimes look like a pilot for a TV series ;besides who could believe Bradford Dillman is a farmer? Always dressed up to the nines ,at least we saw Warren Beatty work in dungarees in "splendor in the grass".Both Ben Gazzara and Peter Graves are given undeveloped parts.