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A medical student becomes obsessed with his faithless lover.A medical student becomes obsessed with his faithless lover.A medical student becomes obsessed with his faithless lover.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 nominations total
Anthony Booth
- Martin
- (uncredited)
Terry Clinton
- Barmaid
- (uncredited)
May Cluskey
- Sister
- (uncredited)
Martin Crosbie
- Lab Technician
- (uncredited)
Alex Dignam
- Student
- (uncredited)
Michael Doolan
- Boy With Club Foot
- (uncredited)
Bryan Forbes
- Medical Student
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Ken Hughes
- Henry Hathaway(additional scenes)
- Bryan Forbes(one week) (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis was something of a catastrophe for MGM. Filming began early in 1963, but Henry Hathaway resigned as director and Bryan Forbes, who had a prominent supporting role, did a week of directing before also leaving the film. He tried without success to have his credit as writer of the screenplay removed and was replaced as an actor by Jack Hedley. (However, Forbes can be glimpsed, more or less as an extra, in one or two scenes.) Ken Hughes finished the film and reportedly had a very bad time; the film was many months in the editing rooms and was not seen until late in 1964, nearly a year after its scheduled release date. It ran for only 99 minutes - a surprise, as the novel is about 800 pages. It was a commercial and critical disaster, being released in the UK on the lower half of a double-bill. It has only infrequently been seen since, even on TV.
- Quotes
Nora Nesbitt: You're well out of it.
Philip Carey: Out of what?
Nora Nesbitt: Whatever you came here to forget.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood and the Stars: In Search of Kim Novak (1964)
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Intense and real
I had only seen the Bette Davis, Ashley Wilkes version before and it struck me as over the top. Ashley, er.. I mean Howard was so wimpy and Davis so over the top. I love Bette but this was not her best effort. I never saw them as people, only archetypes in a cold exploration of the ironies in human relationships.
This version is the complete opposite. Novak's Mildred really surprised me with her depth. She was completely believable, and all her actions were in character. She was no one-dimensional harridan but a real woman. We could see the qualities that attracted Harvey's Dr. Carey to her. There is true tragedy in her demise, in that she did not realize that she had lost what she truly wanted until it was too late.
Lawrence Harvey was even better. I thought he was great in Room at the Top but this performance might have surpassed that in subtlety. His actions are completely believable and one understands and feels his pain, not for himself, but for the woman that he is bound to, yet helpless to save.
As for the IMDb preference for the 1934 version - well, maybe some of the young film students need to get out of the lecture hall and into the real world a bit more. This film is real, intense and so beautifully sad...
This version is the complete opposite. Novak's Mildred really surprised me with her depth. She was completely believable, and all her actions were in character. She was no one-dimensional harridan but a real woman. We could see the qualities that attracted Harvey's Dr. Carey to her. There is true tragedy in her demise, in that she did not realize that she had lost what she truly wanted until it was too late.
Lawrence Harvey was even better. I thought he was great in Room at the Top but this performance might have surpassed that in subtlety. His actions are completely believable and one understands and feels his pain, not for himself, but for the woman that he is bound to, yet helpless to save.
As for the IMDb preference for the 1934 version - well, maybe some of the young film students need to get out of the lecture hall and into the real world a bit more. This film is real, intense and so beautifully sad...
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- lhhung_himself
- Oct 18, 2009
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- W. Somerset Maugham's of Human Bondage
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- Gross US & Canada
- $3,815,000
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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