By Love Possessed
Summary:
There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives -- and that includes the usual maladies of alcoholism, rape, and suicide. At least this is the case if you go by the tortuous tale told in By Love Possessed, a Peyton Place knock-off, directed with glossy intensity by the usually reliable action director John Sturges (Bad D... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Lana Turner - (Marjorie Penrose)
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. - (Arthur Winner)
Jason Robards, Jr. - (Julius Penrose)
George Hamilton - (Warren Winner)
Susan Kohner - (Helen Detweiler)
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Review:
Perhaps if Douglas Sirk had directed it, By Love Possessed might have emerged as a soap opera classic, full of the cool irony that managed to add depth to otherwise superficial situations and blessed with color and design that becomes an intrinsic part of the viewing experience. But Sirk is nowhere to be found in Possessed; the directio... Continue >>
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