"Stewardess! If there's any brandy on board, pass it out!" One of the last old school Hollywood studio productions, from Ross Hunter at Universal - Easy Rider and The Wild Bunch (and - arguably - Bonnie and Clyde) had changed everything. Arthur Hailey's source novel provides a multitude of characters whose fates intersect one night in a blizzard. They are: Burt Lancaster and Jean Seberg, Dean Martin and Jacqueline Bissett, Helen Hayes (winning Oscar), Van Heflin and Maureen Stapleton (Reds, Interiors, Cocoon, Heartburn, Plaza Suite), George Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Nelson, Dana Wynter, John Findlater, Jessie Royce Landis.
Some of the split screen stuff is so dated it's cute.
DP Ernest Laszlo, music Lionel Newman, Art direction Alexander Golitzen & E. Preston Ames, editor Stuart Gilmore (most of the Preston Sturges).
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Are Jean Seberg and Eve Marie Saint interchangeable?
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