Interesting. A famously tricky production - Larry harvey was annoyed, Edwardy Dmytryk really didn't have control, producer Charles Feldman putting his oar in, script changing a lot, Capucine trying a drama role, Jane Fonda super inexperienced, Barbara Stanwyck playing a pioneering screen lesbian.
Script feels endlessly rewritten. Scenes upon scenes. Basically Harvey wants Capucine back. Capucine is an artist working at a brothel. Dmyrtyk complained about the sleeze Feldman wanted to put in - I think it needed more! Not sure Dmytryk was the right director - needed someone who could do sexually charged material, like Elia Kazan or Joe Mankiewicz.
Capucine is fine, as is Harvey - I thought both would be worse than they are. Fonda is gorgeous but has a little just-out-of-drama-school vibes about her (I'm acting! Look at me act!).
Great music, photography, Saul Bass title credits.
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