JasparLamarCrabb
A preposterous film featuring Jane Fonda as a sickly débutante enamored with older man Peter Finch. Through a serious of coincidences that only really occur in glossy soap operas, she ends up in the Greek Isles with Finch AND his wife (Angela Lansbury). Seldom have so many great actors been so bad in one film. Fonda is dying of something lung-related. We know that because every few minutes she's winded and has to stop, make a fist and appear bug-eyed. Finch is OK but Lansbury is really wasted in a cliché role (the dejected, self-loathing wife). The mixture of real and studio bound Greek scenery is laughable. A really lousy soap opera. Produced by classy John Houseman.
whpratt1
If you like Jane Fonda, you will enjoy her acting in this picture and also how very young looking she looked in all her fancy looking clothes. There is also fantastic photography through out Greece and the ancient ruins, also a nice Greek dance with Peter Finch and Jane Fonda. Murray Logan, (Peter Finch) is a successful author married to Sybil Logan, (Angela Lansbury) and they are a very unhappy couple because of a tragic event in their early marriage. Sam Bonner, (Arthur Hill) is a very good friend of Murray and one day he meets his wife, Christine Bonner, (Jane Fonda). As soon as this couple look at each other, you can see in their eyes an outstanding attraction and this is what makes this film a triangle of love and romance and plenty of fights.
oyoukid
No wonder this wasn't even listed in my comprehensive special edition video book covering thousands of movies ~ not even as a dog. Since yesterday, 10/16/06, was Angela Lansbury's 81st birthday they featured her movies on Turner Classics. Evidently Jane Fonda must still have some pull with Ted, because her performance didn't warrant viewing; it made ME uncomfortable watching her. Angela, in a recent interview, mentioned her disappointment with that movie. No surprise! That's 90 minutes I'll never get back. However, I made a lovely cauliflower au gratin and a pumpkin pie while the movie played on our kitchen TV (I kept thinking something would happen or the story would get better; it didn't).
moonspinner55
Poor Jane Fonda must have been under the taut thumb of the studio system when she signed on to do this movie--how else to explain a talented and attractive up-&-coming starlet getting trapped in the middle of this island? Sappy plot involves infidelity on the Mediterranean, as sleepy-eyed Peter Finch falls for his best friend's flirtatious wife while touring Athens. British production does look good, but the handsome travelogue footage from Greece fails to bolster the wayward story. Performances are mostly dull, with Fonda looking highly ridiculous in an Oriental-style "fall" causing her to resemble the night hostess at Madame Chow's. *1/2 from ****
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