Very good film with Rosalind Russell and Jack Hawkins giving outstanding performances as a miss-matched couple. She is a status climber who married Hawkins for financial security.
She is looking for culture. He is looking for his successful furniture business to do even better.
The action takes place at a summer resort in California. Son Philip, a Harvard student, comes home to the turbulence and frustrations besetting the house.
Russell has hired a German to tutor their young daughter, played by Lana Wood. Max Schell, who had won the Oscar the year before in "Judgment at Nuremberg," is quite effective in a supporting role. Yearning for freedom and to be an American, Schell later admits the involvement of his tyrannical father during the Nazi rule and his submissive mother.
Russell's attempted fling with Schell and his telling her that she could be his replacement mother nearly leads to tragedy.
A film dealing with inner conflict, status seeking, and desire, it was handled quite well by all concerned.
She is looking for culture. He is looking for his successful furniture business to do even better.
The action takes place at a summer resort in California. Son Philip, a Harvard student, comes home to the turbulence and frustrations besetting the house.
Russell has hired a German to tutor their young daughter, played by Lana Wood. Max Schell, who had won the Oscar the year before in "Judgment at Nuremberg," is quite effective in a supporting role. Yearning for freedom and to be an American, Schell later admits the involvement of his tyrannical father during the Nazi rule and his submissive mother.
Russell's attempted fling with Schell and his telling her that she could be his replacement mother nearly leads to tragedy.
A film dealing with inner conflict, status seeking, and desire, it was handled quite well by all concerned.