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A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.A ruthless college student resorts to murder in an attempt to marry an heiress.
Albert Cavens
- Restaurant Patron
- (uncredited)
Robert Ivers
- Student at Murder Scene
- (uncredited)
Mickey Martin
- Student
- (uncredited)
Joe McGuinn
- Chemistry Professor
- (uncredited)
Edwin Rochelle
- Restaurant Patron
- (uncredited)
Jack Stoney
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaMovie was filmed in Tucson, Arizona and the surrounding area, including the copper mine south of town.
- GoofsNear the end, Gordon is riding to the mine in a Cadillac limousine that has air conditioning, as indicated by small air scoops on both sides behind the back doors. The next shots (after the accident) show a different Cadillac without them. Cars of this era with factory installed air conditioning had half of the system in the trunk, requiring outside air via those little air scoops.
- Quotes
Bud Corliss: It's not right.
Dorothy Kingship: What?
Bud Corliss: For anyone to love somebody as much as I love you.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Living Single: A Kiss Before Lying (1993)
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Peculiar but entertaining mixture
I read Ira Levin's book when I was young, sometime in the 1960s, and loved it. It's very chilling, and I think as good as Rosemary's Baby. Better than the Stepford Wives and Boys from Brazil.
This film is a quite bizarre mixture of the chilling and the comical. Someone above has mentioned the scene where Bud and Dorie are having an intense conversation when suddenly a middle-aged woman in a completely see-through blouse with a great big bra underneath walks between them and halts the conversation; she has nothing whatsoever to do with the plot, and when it happened I literally burst out laughing at the incongruousness of it. I also laughed at Jeffrey Hunter's ridiculous attempts to manipulate heavy Clark Kent spectacles and an unlit pipe in a vain attempt to appear mature.
The good points about the film are the plot, which is gripping even though it's been shortened markedly from the book, and some of the acting, particularly Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward -- and I also enjoyed George Macready as the father of Dorie and Ellen.
The fact is that I was consistently interested or amused or gripped by something or other for the whole of the film. You can't really ask for much more from a film.
This film is a quite bizarre mixture of the chilling and the comical. Someone above has mentioned the scene where Bud and Dorie are having an intense conversation when suddenly a middle-aged woman in a completely see-through blouse with a great big bra underneath walks between them and halts the conversation; she has nothing whatsoever to do with the plot, and when it happened I literally burst out laughing at the incongruousness of it. I also laughed at Jeffrey Hunter's ridiculous attempts to manipulate heavy Clark Kent spectacles and an unlit pipe in a vain attempt to appear mature.
The good points about the film are the plot, which is gripping even though it's been shortened markedly from the book, and some of the acting, particularly Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward -- and I also enjoyed George Macready as the father of Dorie and Ellen.
The fact is that I was consistently interested or amused or gripped by something or other for the whole of the film. You can't really ask for much more from a film.
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- Jan 1, 2011
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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