This film is without question one of the silliest I have ever seen. It's just really, really silly. I enjoy melodrama, but this goes beyond dumb. Its almost as crass and unbelievable as an episode of 'Eastenders'.
And Liz Taylor. Listening to her read Tennessee Williams' laugh-out-loud stoo-pid, histrionic lines in that unbelievably irritating southern accent she does is as close to torture as I want to get. Yes, she looks great in the bathing costume. But she was the Kelly Brook of her day. A total non talent.
Montgomery Clift moves through the whole thing wearing one, almost indescribable, expression. It's poised, painfully, somewhere between complete surprise and abject terror. And thats just to deliver expository dialogue like "How are you today?". Very strange.
One point of interest. Rita Webb, a familiar face from things like 'The Benny Hill show' and various British sex comedies of the seventies, appears briefly as an inmate in a mental asylum. Naturally, its a mental asylum where the patients laugh maniacally and leer into the camera from frenziedly undulating rocking chairs.
And Liz Taylor. Listening to her read Tennessee Williams' laugh-out-loud stoo-pid, histrionic lines in that unbelievably irritating southern accent she does is as close to torture as I want to get. Yes, she looks great in the bathing costume. But she was the Kelly Brook of her day. A total non talent.
Montgomery Clift moves through the whole thing wearing one, almost indescribable, expression. It's poised, painfully, somewhere between complete surprise and abject terror. And thats just to deliver expository dialogue like "How are you today?". Very strange.
One point of interest. Rita Webb, a familiar face from things like 'The Benny Hill show' and various British sex comedies of the seventies, appears briefly as an inmate in a mental asylum. Naturally, its a mental asylum where the patients laugh maniacally and leer into the camera from frenziedly undulating rocking chairs.