Salome, pregnant by Chad, runs away from her rural-Texas home and marries wealthy Yale student Tony. Years later she runs into Chad, who is now a successful musician in New York.Salome, pregnant by Chad, runs away from her rural-Texas home and marries wealthy Yale student Tony. Years later she runs into Chad, who is now a successful musician in New York.Salome, pregnant by Chad, runs away from her rural-Texas home and marries wealthy Yale student Tony. Years later she runs into Chad, who is now a successful musician in New York.
Jay Adler
- Sammy Trist
- (uncredited)
Ricky Allen
- Saul
- (uncredited)
Harry Caesar
- Blues House Party Spectator
- (uncredited)
Charles Calvert
- Deacon
- (uncredited)
Carl Christian
- Minister
- (uncredited)
Ken Christy
- Conductor
- (uncredited)
George Cisar
- Cop
- (uncredited)
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- Michael Anderson
- Vincente Minnelli(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film's title was the inspiration for the name of the 1980s British pop-rock band Fine Young Cannibals.
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Chad Bixby: I love ya, Salome, but if I can't have ya, I'm gonna hurtcha.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Let's Get Lost (1988)
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My favourite introduction to the blues
I happened to see this film years ago in a sleepless night, zapping through some of the less commercial public canals we still had at the time in Europe. It really opened my soul because of the music included. I will not comment on the quality of the script or the acting of the young couple Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner; others can do better than I. But I like the slow pace, the melodramatic story, the dialogue lines that stay in your head, and - above all - I was thrilled by the singing and acting of Pearl Bailey as Ruby Jones. If ever you have to explain the feelings that gave rise to the blues, ahead of the ubiquitous slavery hardships and working in the cotton fields, then this movie is a 'must-see'. When Chad is in the lowest of spirits and ends up in a morning-after hang-out, he runs into this Ruby Jones, an alcoholic, but warm-hearted black singer. And she treats him with a song, unaccompanied, raw voice, that expresses his feelings so well, and gives him the idea he is not the only unhappy, lost man on this globe. I don't know if Mrs Bailey sung the track herself or was dubbed, but she succeeds in getting the blues feeling across as I've never heard thereafter. Same when later on in the movie she sings to Chad, playing the trumpet: "What am I heading for? Blues is knocking at my door". Alas! this song is spoiled by a dubbed in band and even background vocals if I remember well - anyhow, it takes away from the simplicity of just a singer and a "horn player" (as she puts it throughout the picture). The sad story of the twists and impossibilities of human relationships is to me more real-life than most of the soapy Hollywood plots that come to us by shiploads these days. Endearing, that's probably the word that says it all.
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- May 2, 2005
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- Ever for Each Other
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- $1,638,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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