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Release year: 1960

Storyline

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

Top credits

Directors

Richard Quine

Writers

Evan Hunter

Cast

Kirk Douglas — Larry Coe
Kim Novak — Margaret 'Maggie' Gault
Ernie Kovacs — Roger Altar
Barbara Rush — Eve Coe

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Did you know

• Kim Novak reportedly enjoyed a lot of latitude on the set because she was involved with director Richard Quine and used that latitude to make unsolicited suggestions to various crew members. However, when Novak tried to make suggestions to Kirk Douglas on how he should be acting, he took offense and the result was a chilly relationship between them off-set.

• Some set elements are reused from a previous Richard Quine-directed film, Bell Book and Candle (1958), which also starred Kim Novak and featured Ernie Kovacs. In particular, lamps in Roger Altar's apartment in this film had appeared in Shep's apartment in Bell. Both films shared set decorator Louis Diage.

• When Margaret and her mother are talking in the living room, her mother starts to read a copy of Vogue magazine - it's the January 1, 1957 issue.