Warner Bros.Directed by Robert Gist
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Nominated: Best Original Song
A Norman Mailer novel is somehow turned into a trashy 60s film noir. The dialogue is over-the-top and simply awful, to the point this becomes a cultish "so bad it's good" candidate. Eleonor Parker is a wealthy, drunk, venomous socialite married to TV talk-show host Stuart Whitman. In the first 30 minutes they do nothing but spit vile comments at each other in an entertaining fashion. When he pushes her over a 30th floor balcony in a fit of rage he tries to cover it up by claiming suicide. The police don't buy it, but can't prove otherwise. He boasts about "spreading her brains" across the street to her father. Eventually he ends up on the same balcony with visions of Hitchcock's Vertigo, complete with Janet Leigh from Psycho. The UK title is "See You in Hell, Darling", which is actually more appropriate.
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