Terrible. Another TV play blown up into a film and crushing under its weight. The echoes of Brief Encounter (meet on a train, short time frame) make you appreciate what a good film that was. Leonard Whiting plays a walking red flag who stalks Jean Simmons, Chases her, refuses to go away when she tells him, chases after her when she runs away, acts boorishly, follows her to ehr mothers, eventually gets her into bed, then smacks her when she says her husband is better in bed.
Who was meant to watch this? To relate to it? Is it significant? Whiting is a good looking lad but he's so boorish and such a wanker.
Tom Mankiewicz wrote a touching vignette of sad, lonely Jean Simmons making a pass at him in real life. Maybe she resonated.
There's not even a "future famous person" in a bit part.
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