In the Cool of the Day drama film 1963 Jane Fonda Peter Finch feature reviews Boxoffice magazine July 1963 Κινηματογραφικά

 

“ In the Cool of the Day ”

drama film 1963

Jane Fonda

Peter Finch

Boxoffice magazine, July 15, 1963

feature reviews

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Angela Lansbury, Jane Fonda, Peter Finch

 

 

 

“In the Cool of the Day” 

drama

MGM 

88 Minutes

Released May ’63

 

   Some breathtakingly beautiful backgrounds of modern and ancient Greece and an outstanding portrayal of an embittered wife by Angela Lansbury fail to compensate for the inept performance by Jane Fonda in this dull and generally lifeless drama produced by John Houseman, who has given the screen “Lust for Life” and “Julius Caesar.”

   However, the marquee draw of Peter Finch, plus that of Fonda and Lansbury, will attract the women patrons, especially in the key cities.

   The story by Meade Roberts, from a novel by Susan Ertz, deals with two unhappy couples who plan a trip to Greece to try to rejuvenate their fading romances. When the younger woman’s husband is forced to stay behind, she falls in love with the husband of the other woman, a surly, facially scarred wife.

   Their adventures in Greece, among the classic ruins and with some lively, dancing natives, all photographed in Panavision and Metrocolor, will keep audiences interested but this all leads up to an unnecessarily tragic finale.

   Miss Lansbury and Arthur Hill, playing a mild-mannered, overly devoted husband, capture the acting honors, although Finch shows up well, especially in contrast to Miss Fonda. Robert Stevens directed.

 

 

 

Peter Finch (as Murray Logan)

Jane Fonda (as Christine Bonner)

Angela Lansbury (as Sybil Logan)

Arthur Hill (as Sam Bonner)

Constance Cummings (as Nina Gellert)

with

Alexander Knox (as Frederick Bonner)

Nigel Davenport (as Leonard Groves)

John Le Mesurier (as dr. Arraman)

 

 

  

 

THE STORY: “In the Cool of the Day”

   Peter Finch, a book publisher whose wife, Angela Lansbury, continues to taunt him about an automobile accident which left her facially scarred, meets Jane Fonda, a girl who has been over-protected by her mild-mannered husband, Arthur Hill. Hill, who persuades Finch to have their wives join them on a vacation trip to Greece, is forced to remain behind because of his father’s illness.

   In Greece, Finch and Jane take delight in touring the ancient wonders while Angela remains in her hotel room and finally takes up with a philandering traveler. When she walks out on Finch, he continues his travels with Jane until she takes cold one rainy day and dies of pneumonia just after Hill reaches her bedside. Finch goes on alone visiting the places he and Jane had hoped to see together.

 

EXPLOITIPS:

   Make travel tieins with travel agencies for window displays or travel posters of Greece in the lobby. Ladies shops will feature the travel clothes worn by Miss Fonda and Miss Lansbury in the film.

 

CATCHLINES:

  It Happened in the Irresistibly Romantic City of Athens . . . Did This Wife Have the Right to Seek Happiness Outside Her Marriage?

 

 

 

Boxoffice magazine, July 15, 1963

Feature reviews 

 

 

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σκηνοθεσία: Robert Stevens

film based on a novel

Susan Ertz, “In the  Cool of the Day”, 1960

διάλογοι: Meade Roberts  

μουσική: Francis Chagrin

φωτογραφία: Peter Newbrook  

διάρκεια: 89 λεπτά

έγχρωμον

Γυρίσματα:

Ελλάδα

Αγγλία

Release date: May 29, 1963 New York

 

 

 

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Boxoffice magazine, July 15, 1963

Feature reviews

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