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From the Terrace (1960)

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Reviews Counted:8

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Rotten:5

Average Rating:4.8/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 24 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: FROM THE TERRACE is the melodramatic story of one man's relentless pursuit of the American Dream--and, once he's gained his final victory, his eventual rejection of that world. Paul Newman is... FROM THE TERRACE is the melodramatic story of one man's relentless pursuit of the American Dream--and, once he's gained his final victory, his eventual rejection of that world. Paul Newman is Alfred Eaton, a man married to old money and on his way up the corporate ladder in a successful Wall Street firm. But Eaton's dissatisfaction with the values that once ruled his life and his illicit love affair with a likeminded young woman turn his world upside down at the moment of his greatest reward. This 1960 drama marks one of the many films in which longtime husband-and-wife acting duo Newman and Joanne Woodward appear opposite each another. [More]

Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin

Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames, Barbara Eden, George Grizzard, Elizabeth Allen, Patrick O'Neal, Felix Aylmer

Director: Mark Robson

Director: Mark Robson
Producer: Mark Robson
Screenwriter: Ernest Lehman
Story: John O'Hara
Composer: Elmer Bernstein

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Robson's film is still highly watchable, with Paul and Joanne pretending their marriage is on the rocks, and all sorts of machinations in the boardroom and the bedroom.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 26 2006 03:16 AM

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Emanuel Levy

Just as disappointing as the other John O'Hara novel made into a movie that year, Butterfield 8 with Liz Taylor, but without that film's melodramatic juice, though Paul Newman is well cast as the ambitious, upwardly mobile man in moral crisis.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 04 2009 11:54 AM

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Another failed attempt to adapt one of John O'Hara's sprawling novels for the screen.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 17 2008 11:39 AM

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From The Terrace builds up to one big cliche.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 17 2008 11:37 AM

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Howard Thompson

This is a handsome picture, well-performed and emotionally intriguing as it describes the rise of a young business man and the corrosive dead-lock of his loveless marriage.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 09 2005 03:16 AM

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Carol Cling

No review available.

comment Comment | Mar., 26 2004 05:52 PM

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Walter Chaw

An epic winker that uses, in its best moment, a rocking dinghy as a euphemism.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

A tolerable (if interminable) piece of mediocrity from 1960.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM

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