A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.
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- TriviaThe on-screen epilogue is taken from Alexander Pope's "Epistle II --- To a Lady --- Of the Characters of Women" (1735): "Wise Wretch! with Pleasures too refin'd to please, With too much Spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought: You purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live."
- GoofsNo interior rear-view mirror in Suzanne Pleshette's estate car when she gives Ben Gazzara a lift in the rain.
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Grace Caldwell: I thought I loved him, and then I found I could feel the same way about someone else, someone different.
Brock Caldwell: Grace, that isn't love.
Grace Caldwell: No. But it's being wanted and needed and held close. It's almost love.
Brock Caldwell: "Almost love"? You don't have to settle for that.
Grace Caldwell: I'm not settling.
Brock Caldwell: I just don't get this. You talk like a girl who's got nothing else in her life, who nobody cares about ...
Grace Caldwell: No ...
Brock Caldwell: Well, that's the way it sounds --
Grace Caldwell: I don't care how it sounds. When I feel that way, I can't think of anything else. Doesn't matter who I am or what I'm supposed to be. Nothing matters. I can't help it.
- SoundtracksRage To Live
Music by Art Ferrante and Lou Teicher
Lyrics by Noel Sherman
Performed on two pianos by Art Ferrante (as Ferrante) and Lou Teicher (as Teicher)
This soapy picture is based on a popular best seller by John O'Hara and made in similar style to Harold Robbins' Soap-operas in the Sixties . Dealing with an explosive , nympho woman who becomes involved in various love affairs resulting in lousy and distressed consequences . This twisted story seems to be been suggested by the real life of a famous actress in distress . Main and support cast are pretty good . Standing out the gorgeous Suzanne Pleshette , though Anne Bancroft , Sue Lyon and Natalie Wood were previously sought for this thorny character who eventually played by Suzanne . As the charming Suzanne is nice as the nymphomaniac woman whose passion leads her to twisted paths , she gives a fine performance , though overacting at times . She was deemed to be one of Hollywood's best but underrated actresses . While Bradford Dillman performs decently the young man who falls in love, and he asks her to marry him . They are well accompanied by a familiar plethora of secondaries giving adequate interpretations , such as : Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves , Bethel Leslie , Carmen Mathews , Linden Chiles, James Gregory , Ruth White, Virginia Christine , Mark Goddard , among others .
It displays an evocative and brilliant cinematography in black and white by Charles Lawton Jr. , being shot in Burbank , California . As well as atmospheric and dramatic musical score by Nelson Riddle . This Soap Opera motion picture was professionally directed by TV craftsman Walter Grauman . He was a good artisan who made a large number of Television movies and episodes in a long career and eventually directed some films . As he shot episodes of popular series such as : Murder, She Wrote , Columbo , V , Blacke's Magic , Cover-up , Barnaby Jones , Streets of San Francisco , Manhunter , Most wanted , FBI , Mission Impossible , Blue Light , The New Breed , Untouchables, Steve Canyon , Peter Gunn , Colt 45 , Perry Mason , Will Banner , The Fugitive, among others .
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- Oct 7, 2021
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- John O'Hara's A Rage to Live
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- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1