Susan Hayward and Peter Finch could have been a great screen team and should have gotten a much better story than I Thank A Fool. I'm betting Susan did this one for a trip to the British Isles.
This is one which casts Susan Hayward as a doctor who goes to prison as a result of a euthanasia done by Hayward on her lover and teacher. Of course she loses her license to practice medicine.
So imagine her surprise when on release from prison, she's offered a job as a nurse companion to Diane Cilento, a very disturbed young woman. To make things even more bizarre the husband who offered the job to her is the lawyer who prosecuted her in Old Bailey, Peter Finch.
If that's not a bizarre plot premise I don't know what is. As for Finch he just says he believes in giving people a break.
Diane Cilento has some very good scenes as the wife. As it turns out she's got good reason to be disturbed. The subject of incest is very delicately broached here with the appearance of her bottom feeding father Cyril Cusack. The film does better by Cusack and Cilento than for its leads.
A story way beneath the considerable talents of its stars.
This is one which casts Susan Hayward as a doctor who goes to prison as a result of a euthanasia done by Hayward on her lover and teacher. Of course she loses her license to practice medicine.
So imagine her surprise when on release from prison, she's offered a job as a nurse companion to Diane Cilento, a very disturbed young woman. To make things even more bizarre the husband who offered the job to her is the lawyer who prosecuted her in Old Bailey, Peter Finch.
If that's not a bizarre plot premise I don't know what is. As for Finch he just says he believes in giving people a break.
Diane Cilento has some very good scenes as the wife. As it turns out she's got good reason to be disturbed. The subject of incest is very delicately broached here with the appearance of her bottom feeding father Cyril Cusack. The film does better by Cusack and Cilento than for its leads.
A story way beneath the considerable talents of its stars.