This is a fine film well produced at MGM and essentially a star vehicle for Steve McQueen.
MGM had a group of contract stars in 1960: Richard Chamberlain, George Peppard, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton and two very able likable stars in Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss. Prentiss and Hutton became stars in Where The Boys Are, and co starred in Bob Hope-Lana Turner film Bachelor In Paradise, and my favorite Hutton Prentiss movie The Horizontal Lieutenant. MGM wanted to star them in a comedy And Now To Bed but Hutton declined. MGM cast him in this film version of a Tennessee Williams play Period Of Adjustment which is about newlyweds adjusting to marriage. Hutton does a good job co starring with Jane Fonda.
Jim Hutton continued to refuse MGM offers and went on a year long long suspension before gaining his release however Hutton had to do MGM 's Looking For Love (with a cameo by Paula Prentiss) before gaining his release. After MGM Hutton worked with John Wayne,, Cary Grant, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Connie Stevens, Paul Ford, but but his movie career fizzled.
Jim Hutton died just after his 45th Birthday. Father of Tim Hutton who won the Oscar for Ordinary People and brought many to tears when he wished "My Father was here"
MGM had a group of contract stars in 1960: Richard Chamberlain, George Peppard, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton and two very able likable stars in Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss. Prentiss and Hutton became stars in Where The Boys Are, and co starred in Bob Hope-Lana Turner film Bachelor In Paradise, and my favorite Hutton Prentiss movie The Horizontal Lieutenant. MGM wanted to star them in a comedy And Now To Bed but Hutton declined. MGM cast him in this film version of a Tennessee Williams play Period Of Adjustment which is about newlyweds adjusting to marriage. Hutton does a good job co starring with Jane Fonda.
Jim Hutton continued to refuse MGM offers and went on a year long long suspension before gaining his release however Hutton had to do MGM 's Looking For Love (with a cameo by Paula Prentiss) before gaining his release. After MGM Hutton worked with John Wayne,, Cary Grant, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Connie Stevens, Paul Ford, but but his movie career fizzled.
Jim Hutton died just after his 45th Birthday. Father of Tim Hutton who won the Oscar for Ordinary People and brought many to tears when he wished "My Father was here"