Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

winstonfg Better still, buy the soundtrack on CD. Dated, pretentious angst-ridden nonsense that is saved only partially by the fine music; and certainly not by an over-the-top Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner. I usually like Wood (not quite so sold on Wagner), but here she seems shrill and the whole film looks and feels awfully dated. I'd rate it just ahead of the truly criminal Subterraneans of the same year (with another of my usual favourites, Leslie Caron). That also had a great soundtrack, including the great Gerry Mulligan, but in it's case it wasn't enough to induce me to watch it all the way through.This one I did, but I'm not sure it was worth the bother.

Ripshin The opening twenty, or so, minutes of this film are ludicrous, and I had to force myself to stay away from the delete button on my DVR. Pretty couple Wagner & Wood unconvincingly play two white-trash Texas teenagers, utilizing some of the worst faux Texas/Southern accents to ever grace (or in this case, disgrace) the screen. Granted, once the film has Pearl Bailey to work with, there are some nice moments, but they are few and far between.Hamilton has little to do, and Susan Kohner plays spoiled rich girl Catherine so broadly, you expect the character to grow horns and carry around a pitchfork.Sets and costumes are the usual MGM glam.

sandcrab I won't belabor the issue here about a famous star that has passed on because they cannot defend themselves. Natalie Wood had all the tools to be the penultimate actress. But, she could never get over her insecurities dealing with her sisters, family or spouse. Then, she married the notorious womanizer Robert Wagner, yet again and added further insult to injury and finally death became her. Alcoholism is a more painful way to die. Its very strange that a full inquiry was never performed. Murder she wrote and Angela would have a field day ! Hollywood does indeed make strange bedfellows. Splendor in the grass - gimme a break, Warren Beatty and Elvis ? So much for myths. This film was on cruise control, thats really how good the pair was on screen. They just did what they were doing in real life !

moonspinner55 Utterly silly melodrama, adapted by Robert Thom from Rosamond Marshall's book "The Bixby Girls", plays like bad Tennessee Williams. Robert Wagner is alternately sullen and constipated as Texas trumpet-player who finds success in New York City; ex-girlfriend Natalie Wood (Wagner's wife in real-life) winds up there too--she had Wagner's baby while married to George Hamilton--and eventually their paths cross again. Unlikely, overripe star-laden product has some good jazz music to its credit, nice production design, but little else. Natalie tries hard, Pearl Bailey gets to belt out a few torchy numbers, but the dopey dialogue and characters sinks this one like a stone. ** from ****