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Release year: 1962

Storyline

Lisa's husband Robert fakes his death in a plane crash to collect insurance. She's trapped between helping him commit fraud and her growing feelings for David Barnes, until she makes one final, desperate choice.

Top credits

Directors

Anatole Litvak

Writers

Cast

Sophia Loren — Lisa Macklin
Anthony Perkins — Robert Macklin
Gig Young — David Barnes
Yolande Turner — Barbara Ford

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Did you know

• The film was a box-office and critical failure. Anatole Litvak later said that the problem was that the writers never fully figured out the story, necessitating script rewrites throughout the filming. Litvak praised the extensive rewrite work of novelist Hugh Wheeler, but said it had not been enough to save the film.

• Bob's $120,000 life insurance policy payout, adjusted to inflation, is equivalent to over $1,200,00 in 2023.

• The plane Robert is depicted as flying in is a 1944 Douglas DC-4, registration F-BBDR. Originally built as a C-54 Skymaster cargo and transport plane for the U.S. Army Air Force in WWII. It was converted after the war to a commercial passenger aircraft in 1946 and flew with American Airlines as N90437. It was acquired by Air France in 1949 and flew with them until 1967. After that it flew with various airlines, mainly in Africa, until it was scrapped in 1998.