A drunken and violent wife-beater, a man who falsifies his military record and molests women in movie theaters, a sleeping pill addict who wrecked her own marriage, a pathetically depressed and repressed girl, and a vindictive mean-spirited self-righteous old woman...if you would like to spend two hours with this bunch of losers and creeps, this movie is for you.
We are meant to feel all warm and fuzzy about them, and I guess some viewers did in 1958 and some still do (to judge from the reviews). The writing is terrible and the characters are so pathetic that I walked out before the end.
The only good thing about seeing this movie is that it shows there has been a bit of progress in gender relations since 1958: Wife-battering and groping women in movie theaters are now less likely to be seen as lovable little foibles.
We are meant to feel all warm and fuzzy about them, and I guess some viewers did in 1958 and some still do (to judge from the reviews). The writing is terrible and the characters are so pathetic that I walked out before the end.
The only good thing about seeing this movie is that it shows there has been a bit of progress in gender relations since 1958: Wife-battering and groping women in movie theaters are now less likely to be seen as lovable little foibles.