| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Maureen Stapleton |
Directed by Vincent J. Donehue
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Montgomery Clift gets his first newspaper job as the lonely hearts editor at a small town newspaper. Robert Ryan, his editor, criticizes him at every opportunity, apparently jealous over his wife's affections towards the young writer. Clift has problems of his own, including a father in jail for murdering his mother and her lover. Well, ole Monty, being a sensitive soul, gets a little too involved in the letters from his readers. He agrees to meet one of them and is seduced by her. Guilt gets the best of him and he quits his job and leaves his lovely girlfriend. It's all depressing, very, very depressing. Most of the characters speak in a poetic prose, especially Ryan, who sounds more like a jilted Shakespeare than a newspaper editor in the 1950s. It's impossible to take what he says seriously, and the film simply falls apart under it's own weight.
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