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From the Terrace is one of Paul Newman's lesser-known films, but it's a worthy showcase for the actor's developing screen persona. Like Butterfield 8, this is a slick, prestigious adaptation of a John O'Hara novel, about loose morals and forbidden love among the wealthy elite. Director Mark Robson lacks the mastery of melodrama that Douglas Sirk would've brought to this material, but he's still on target with O'Hara's tale of a prodigal son (Newman) who rejects his late father's steel mill in favor of big-business conquest, only to find his trophy wife (superbly played by Newman's off-screen wife, Joanne Woodward) straying
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From the Terrace is one of Paul Newman's lesser-known films, but it's a worthy showcase for the actor's developing screen persona. Like Butterfield 8, this is a slick, prestigious adaptation of a John O'Hara novel, about loose morals and forbidden love among the wealthy elite. Director Mark Robson lacks the mastery of melodrama that Douglas Sirk would've brought to this material, but he's still on target with O'Hara's tale of a prodigal son (Newman) who rejects his late father's steel mill in favor of big-business conquest, only to find his trophy wife (superbly played by Newman's off-screen wife, Joanne Woodward) straying into the arms of her former fiancé, while he falls in love with a socialite (Ina Balin) with whom he's much more compatible. A well-tuned drama of marital discord and unchecked ambition, From the Terrace was sharply adapted by Ernest Lehman between the triumphs of North by Northwest and West Side Story, and Newman's brooding performance gave him a solid boost to his iconic role in the 1961 classic The Hustler. --Jeff Shannon
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Release date: 20 May 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0024543075493 UPC: 024543075493
Tags: Barbara Eden (1), Lauren Gilbert (1), Kathryn Givney (1), Howard Caine (1), Raymond Greenleaf (1), Elizabeth Allen (1), Ina Balin (1), Patrick O'Neal (1), Dorothy Adams (1), Ted De Corsia (1), Malcolm Atterbury (1), George Grizzard (1), Tivo (1), Felix Aylmer (1), Leon Ames (1), Blossom Rock (1), Raymond Bailey (1), Myrna Loy (1), Joanne Woodward (1), 20th Century Fox (1)
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