June varies from her girl next door image, as she plays Helen Banning, a young woman from Philadelphia who travels to Munich not for romance, but for her career and then gets romantically involved with two men, one of them married!
You don't know who to sympathize with more, as all the members of this quadrangle bring out your compassion. There's Helen, whose head is telling her she'd be better off with Dr. Morley Dwyer (Keith Andes), also from Philly and also in Munich form his career, while her heart is pulling her toward Tonio Fischer (Rossano Brazzi), a famous composer whose wife is mentally ill. There's Tonio, who lives with memories of his once happy marriage, yet wants to grab some present happiness for himself. You also feel for Morley, who's fallen for Helen and tries to make her see reason, doesn't want to give up yet may have to admit defeat. And there's Reni Fischer (Marianne Koch), aware of her illness in her lucid moments and suffering because of it, still very much in love with the husband she doesn't want to lose.
This is a no-win situation if ever there was one, as there's no way someone isn't going to get hurt.
I won't give anything away, except to say that, had this movie been made in Pre-Code days, it might have ended differently.
You don't know who to sympathize with more, as all the members of this quadrangle bring out your compassion. There's Helen, whose head is telling her she'd be better off with Dr. Morley Dwyer (Keith Andes), also from Philly and also in Munich form his career, while her heart is pulling her toward Tonio Fischer (Rossano Brazzi), a famous composer whose wife is mentally ill. There's Tonio, who lives with memories of his once happy marriage, yet wants to grab some present happiness for himself. You also feel for Morley, who's fallen for Helen and tries to make her see reason, doesn't want to give up yet may have to admit defeat. And there's Reni Fischer (Marianne Koch), aware of her illness in her lucid moments and suffering because of it, still very much in love with the husband she doesn't want to lose.
This is a no-win situation if ever there was one, as there's no way someone isn't going to get hurt.
I won't give anything away, except to say that, had this movie been made in Pre-Code days, it might have ended differently.