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DVD From the Terrace
From the Terrace is one of Paul Newman's lesser-known films, but it's a worthy showcase for the actor's developing screen persona. Like Butterfield 8, this is a slick, prestigious adaptation of a John O'Hara novel, about loose morals and forbidden love among the wealthy elite. Director Mark Robson lacks the mastery of melodrama that Douglas Sirk would've brought to this material, but he's still on target with O'Hara's tale of a prodigal son (Newman) who rejects his late father's steel mill in favor of big-business conquest, only to find his trophy wife (superbly played by Newman's off-screen wife, Joanne Woodward) straying into the arms of her former fiancé, while he falls in love with a socialite (Ina Balin) with whom he's much more compatible. A well-tuned drama of marital discord and unchecked ambition, From the Terrace was sharply adapted by Ernest Lehman between the triumphs of North by Northwest and West Side Story, and Newman's brooding performance gave him a solid boost to his iconic role in the 1961 classic The Hustler. --Jeff Shannon
I have this movie on VHS but I wanted the DVD. I could watch it everyday. Paul Newman is HOTTT!!!!
Pass The Peanut Butter!
"From the Terrace," adapted by Ernest Lehman ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf") from a novel by John O'Hara is as stiff and formal as a 1930's drawing room comedy by Noel Coward without an ounce of the wit and irony that makes Coward's plays so much fun.
Alfred Eaton (Paul Newman) is unloved by his father (Leon Ames) who resents him because he (Alfred) outlived his brother and overly-protected by his mother (a resplendently drunk Myrna Loy) who tells him that he can be nice sometimes but "why is it that you are often so cold, Alfred? (In an inadvertently funny scene, Alfred derisively tiptoes out of her bedroom, while his inebriated mother goes on and on about her troubles...but I guess this is what passes as maternal love in the world of John O'Hara)
Alfred sets out for New York City to make his mark on the world and promptly falls in love with Mary St John (Joanne Woodward) much to the dismay of her parents. But then Alfred's father dies (he owns a big factory in Pennsylvania) and the St Johns make an about face and sanction the marriage of Alfred and Mary.
Then Alfred saves the life of the grandson of a big-wheel, disgustingly rich Wall Street Broker and Alfred's life turns around. For the Better: who can say?
Much is made of the dedicated corporate man who cares only about work, making lots of money, buying beautiful clothes and an even more beautiful apartment while his wife seeks solace elsewhere... versus the man who lives a simple life out in the country with a wife and two kids and a Studebaker...but is happy. In it's empty-headed way,
"FTT" succeeds in making the simple life palatable, if pretty dull. But what man on Earth would choose Ina Balin over Joanne Woodward and a huge (looks like 10,000 square feet to me) apartment in the upper 80's on Fifth Avenue to boot?
Newman bluffs his way through the entire movie with his patented steely grimaces and blindingly good looks. Even Woodward, much less all the other men and women in this movie, fade to almost white when they are put into the same frame as Newman.
"From The Terrace" is okay for that rainy day you feel like eating peanut butter out of the jar and quaffing a big magnum (you'll need it, this movie is way over 2 hours long) of good California Sparkling Wine. Invite some friends over: maybe they'll bring over the double Oreos and the large economy size jar of Cheese Whiz.
Newman and Woodward Are Top Drawer!
A classic film adaptation from one of John O'Hara's massive tomes, Mark Robeson's "From the Terrace" hold it's age well and is lots of fun to boot.
Producer Director Mark Robson presents to us in the glossy grandeur of 20th Century-Fox the postwar portrait of a young man on the rise who sacrifices love for money, to a point that is.
Paul Newman turns in an expertly colored performance as Alfred Newman. His brooding good looks and hard angles are the perfect reflection of young corporate America of the late 40's and 50's. Yet under that cool hard as coal exterior he hides a desire that only emerges toward the end of the film, yet it is there from the first frame of the film fueling his performance.
Joanne Woodward as Mary St.John is no less brilliant. Her icy cool old money Mary is just the perfect fortress to entice Newman. She plays the part as if she were born to it and in the end she is left hard, jaded and desperate. She proves once again why she is still one of our best film actresses from the fifties who is still working today.
Studio costume designer Travilla should be noted for his wonderful costumes. He was most famous for his designs in the 50's for Marilyn Monroe. Here he presents a stunningly elegant collection of the best looks of the late 50's and early 60's. His designs are rich and restrained and a feast for the eye.
The score by the late great Elmer Bernstein is another masterpiece by this musical genius who's work spanned the from "The Ten Commandments" to "Vanilla Sky". It is a perfect score. Of particular note is the scene between Mary and her old lover at the ice-skating shed and the scene where Alfred rescues a drowning boy. These cues are magnificent and moving.
"From The Terrace" is both trashy fun and a thought provoking view of money, power and sexual politics of mid century America.
Paul Newman has his glorious youthful swagger in this southern-fried melodrama, which marked his first picture with Joanne Woodward (they married after shooting ended). The script is a melange of William Faulkner stories, although it appears more under the influence of Tennessee Williams and Picnic than the Nobel Prize winner. Drifter Newman catches the eye of schoolmarm Woodward and her father, a rural Mississippi bigshot (Orson Welles). This is not one of Welles's better moments; he appears to be conducting make-up experiments. There is some enjoyable flapdoodle along the way, in the Freud-meets-Gone with the Wind manner of '50s southern cooking, but the ending is embarrassingly compromised. The same production team would leave out the box-office concessions a few years... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Paul Newman - Joanne Woodward Director(s): Martin Ritt DVD Release Date: Released the 20 May 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Elizabeth Taylor has never been sexier than as Tennessee Williams's hot-blooded Maggie "The Cat" Pollitt, prowling around her boudoir in a slinky white slip. That's how you know her alcoholic, ex-football-player husband, Brick (Paul Newman), must have more than just his leg in a cast. It's the 65th birthday of wealthy (but dying) southern patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives), and his sons Gooper (Jack Carter) and Brick have come to suck up to him for $10 million in inheritance money. Gooper is a family man and father to a brood of "no-neck monsters"; youngest boy Brick is papa's favorite (as if you couldn't tell from the fellow's names), but hasn't sired progeny. Maggie is definitely in heat, but Brick refuses to sleep with her because he suspects her her of being unfaithful with his best... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor - Paul Newman - Burl Ives Director(s): Richard Brooks DVD Release Date: Released the 19 September 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This glossy and sophisticated romp with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward is delicious fluff. From the opening title song by Sinatra and the early voice-over of Newman comparing a group of bargain hunting women to a herd of cattle, we know this one is going to be fun indeed. Made in 1963 when both were at their finest, the chemistry between the two leads carries this film to make it the most entertaining piece of nonsense you're likely to ever see.
Samantha Blake (Woodward) buys, or steals, all the latest fashions from around the world for her department store. Her boss Joe Bergner (George Tobias) gets it into his head to go to Paris and 'steal' the hottest new fashions and off goes Samantha and Leena (Thelma Ritter) to the City of Lights.
Based on a Larry McMurtry novel, this Martin Ritt film was a testament to the sex appeal of the young Paul Newman. Playing the title character--a total rotter who, by the end of the film, has double-crossed or screwed over everyone he knows, including his hard-working father and brother--Newman turns him into an intriguing antihero. Things are tough on the ranch and Hud's dad (Melvyn Douglas) needs help, but Hud is too busy looking out for number one, even as things fall apart. And guess who's going to land on his feet? Beautiful black-and-white cinematography by James Wong Howe won an Oscar, as did performances by Douglas and Patricia Neal. --Marshall FineMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Paul Newman - Melvyn Douglas - Patricia Neal Director(s): Martin Ritt DVD Release Date: Released the 02 December 2003 Usually ships in 6 to 7 days
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This silky smooth film noir pits gruff police detective Dana Andrews, stiff and blunt in his street-bred manners, against a cultured columnist and acidic wit (Clifton Webb at his prissiest) in a battle of wits during a murder investigation. The cop is a romantic hiding under a hard-boiled exterior who falls in love with the beautiful victim through the portrait that hangs in her apartment. Gene Tierney, whose heart-shaped face mixes the exotic with the girl next door, brings the poise and calm of a model to her role as the object of every man's gaze and the target of a killer. Laura, handsomely shot in dreamy black and white, is the first and best of Otto Preminger's cool, controlled murder mysteries. In the gritty world of film noir it remains the most refined and elegant example... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Gene Tierney - Dana Andrews Director(s): Rouben Mamoulian - Otto Preminger DVD Release Date: Released the 15 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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