I'm a Suzanne Pleshette fan and have yet to not like her in any role she played, and while she acted great as usual in this one, the character she played depressed me, as it seemed she was (whether she knew it or not) to blow up both her marriage and her life.
After a rather promiscuous past, she was given a chance to start over with a man (Bradford Dillman) who knew all about her and still wanted to marry and have a life with her. Yet, she seems almost compelled to betray him (having a hot affair with Ben Gazzara) and risk everything she cares about, as if she just doesn't want to be happy.
This movie shows irony in two instances. First, in having Ben be the one who falls in love and wants to make their fling into a relationship, which is usually the role women take, when involved with married men. Here, it's reversed and - like so many mistresses of married men - he's hoping there will be a divorce in the future, then gets his hopes dashed.
The other irony comes at the end, when she's accused of another infidelity where there wasn't one, shades of the boy who cried wolf.
There are familiar TV faces here: James Gregory ("My Favorite Martian"), Mark Goddard ("Lost in Space") and Aneta Corsaut ("The Andy Griffith Show").
No happy ending here, but a worthwhile film to watch.
After a rather promiscuous past, she was given a chance to start over with a man (Bradford Dillman) who knew all about her and still wanted to marry and have a life with her. Yet, she seems almost compelled to betray him (having a hot affair with Ben Gazzara) and risk everything she cares about, as if she just doesn't want to be happy.
This movie shows irony in two instances. First, in having Ben be the one who falls in love and wants to make their fling into a relationship, which is usually the role women take, when involved with married men. Here, it's reversed and - like so many mistresses of married men - he's hoping there will be a divorce in the future, then gets his hopes dashed.
The other irony comes at the end, when she's accused of another infidelity where there wasn't one, shades of the boy who cried wolf.
There are familiar TV faces here: James Gregory ("My Favorite Martian"), Mark Goddard ("Lost in Space") and Aneta Corsaut ("The Andy Griffith Show").
No happy ending here, but a worthwhile film to watch.