A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
Anne Monaghan
- Mrs. Fontaine
- (as Anna Monaghan)
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- TriviaWhen Stuart Whitman was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, his competition included 'Maria Schell''s brother 'Maximillian Schell' for his role in "Judgement at Nuremberg." Schell won. Maria Schell had told Whitman " I don't know who to vote for!".
- GoofsWhen Jim is talking with Gertrude while she is knitting, as the camera is looking over his shoulder at Gertrude, his hands are down in his lap. When the scene shifts to when the camera is looking over Gertrude's shoulder at Jim, his hands are up, touching his chin.
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Dr. Edmund McNally: Ego, sex, opportunity. Mix all that and you have the poet's dream; Love.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Sven Uslings Bio: The Mark (2019)
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For its time, strong stuff
I caught this film on TV back in the late 70s. A local station showed it late one night with no cuts and no commercial interruptions. Over 20 years later I still remember it. Even when I saw it (about 1979) it was strong stuff for TV. For one thing it shows the child molestor (Stuart Whitman) in a sympathetic light...you see he has no power over his impulses and, at one point, gets sick just before he's about to molest a small girl. Then there are the scenes of group therapy when he's in prison--the language is pretty frank (again, for its time) and it doesn't hold back in its subject matter.
It doers have its slow moments when him and Maria Schell were falling in love, but the performances by Whitman and Schell pull it through. The film is (almost) ruined by a stupid happy ending (probably imposed by the studio)...almost. It's sadly a forgotten film today...purportedly there was a DVD release earlier this year with no fanfare whatsoever. Still, this is worth searching out. It deals with a sensitive subject intelligently and with taste. See "Happiness" for a much more graphic view.
It doers have its slow moments when him and Maria Schell were falling in love, but the performances by Whitman and Schell pull it through. The film is (almost) ruined by a stupid happy ending (probably imposed by the studio)...almost. It's sadly a forgotten film today...purportedly there was a DVD release earlier this year with no fanfare whatsoever. Still, this is worth searching out. It deals with a sensitive subject intelligently and with taste. See "Happiness" for a much more graphic view.
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- Dec 22, 2002
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- Runtime2 hours 7 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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