Date:1964 Type: Drama Rating: 3/5 Colour: Black and White Director: Henry Hathaway / Ken Hughes / Bryan Forbes Producer:
Comment/Synopsis
An aspiring artist with a club foot who is told he does not have the talent to make a living as an artist so he becomes a medical student. He meets Kim Novak who is a local waitress and falls in love with her. She keeps having affairs with other men and so they break up and come back together various times. In between he meets some more suitable women, but he keeps being attracted back to the unsuitable Kim Novak. This is not the best version of the story, the 1934 Bette Davis version being better. Whilst Kim Novak does give a good performance apart from the dubious cockney accent the production does not create the complexity and selfishness of her character and laurence Harvey is very stiff in his character. The film is based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham although significantly abridged. The film had a troubled production with three changes of directors.
3/5 
Kim Novak
Laurence Harvey
Robert Morley
Roger Livesey
Jack Hedley
Nanette Newman