This film is based on the play "Miss Lonelyhearts."
Montgomery Clift, the brooding loner of many films, is at it again as a man who is hiding a terrible secret from his fiancée-his father killed his mother when he was age 3 and is prison for this crime.
A chance meeting with Myrna Loy leads Clift to a job as a newspaper writer writing an advice column to people in difficulty.
A much older looking Ryan portrays a cynical newspaper head who never forgave his wife, Myrna Loy, for an affair that she had 10 years ago. Loy's character is never fully realized in that it's not allowed to develop in the film. She gives a good performance but it seems as if she is cut off.
Maureen Stapleton makes a wonderful impression in her first movie and received an Oscar nomination as best supporting actress for it. She is a mentally ill woman who meets up with Clift and her story telling leads to a near tragedy. She makes the most of the 3 scenes she is in. Her performance sets the stage for the career that was ahead of her-a troubled woman seeking understanding in a world beyond her.
Delores Hart portrays Clift's understanding girlfriend. Miss Hart, who abandoned Hollywood in the early 1960s to become a nun, shows sympathy in the role of almost being in the wrong place at the wrong time as well.
An interesting film showing that we can't necessarily laugh at the predicaments of all people.
Montgomery Clift, the brooding loner of many films, is at it again as a man who is hiding a terrible secret from his fiancée-his father killed his mother when he was age 3 and is prison for this crime.
A chance meeting with Myrna Loy leads Clift to a job as a newspaper writer writing an advice column to people in difficulty.
A much older looking Ryan portrays a cynical newspaper head who never forgave his wife, Myrna Loy, for an affair that she had 10 years ago. Loy's character is never fully realized in that it's not allowed to develop in the film. She gives a good performance but it seems as if she is cut off.
Maureen Stapleton makes a wonderful impression in her first movie and received an Oscar nomination as best supporting actress for it. She is a mentally ill woman who meets up with Clift and her story telling leads to a near tragedy. She makes the most of the 3 scenes she is in. Her performance sets the stage for the career that was ahead of her-a troubled woman seeking understanding in a world beyond her.
Delores Hart portrays Clift's understanding girlfriend. Miss Hart, who abandoned Hollywood in the early 1960s to become a nun, shows sympathy in the role of almost being in the wrong place at the wrong time as well.
An interesting film showing that we can't necessarily laugh at the predicaments of all people.