Long - I knew it would be. Filmmakers thought that colour and Cinemascope weren't enough to drag audiences away from television, everything had to be super-long as well.
Paul Newman is the surviving son of unloving, strict Leon Ames and alcoholic adulterer Myrna Loy (who sadly disappears from the film entirely). Wants to make it big. Marries Joanne Woodward, from a good family, though it turns out she's a slut who's soon cheating on him. In saving the life of the grandson of Felix Aylmer, Newman gets job for the financier but it helps ruin his marriage. Then he meets Ina Balin...
The leads are as good as you'd expect. With Elizabeth Allen, Barbara Eden, George Grizzard, Patrick O'Neal, Malcolm Atterbury, Ted de Corsia.
John O'Hara's novel adapted by Ernest Lehman, leaves things slightly inconclusively - has he lost his job? Were the photos printed? (At any rate he must still own his dad's steel mill?) Did Myrna Loy sober up? Still, most enjoyable.
Photographed by Leo Tover, scored by Elmer Bernstein and edited by Dorothy Spencer, who's in a dissolvey phase, though doesn't mind pulling off an audacious jump cut before the boy falls through the ice. 20th Century Fox.
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