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A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 5 nominations total
Anthony Franciosa
- Ralph Bates
- (as Tony Franciosa)
Leon Alton
- Visitor at Station
- (uncredited)
Robert Anderson
- Cop with Drunken Carolers
- (uncredited)
John Astin
- Smoky Anderson
- (uncredited)
Tol Avery
- Santa Claus
- (uncredited)
William Boyett
- Trucker
- (uncredited)
Kathryn Card
- Mrs. Slovotny - Nurse
- (uncredited)
- …
John Cliff
- Cop with Drunken Carolers
- (uncredited)
Willa Pearl Curtis
- Suzie
- (uncredited)
John Dennis
- Cop with Bald Man
- (uncredited)
Craig Duncan
- Trucker
- (uncredited)
Sam Edwards
- Service Station Attendant
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe original Broadway production of "Period of Adjustment" by Tennessee Williams opened at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York on November 10, 1960, and ran for 132 performances. The play starred Barbara Baxley (Isabel), Robert Webber (George), James Daly (Ralph), and Rosemary Murphy (Dorothea). The play was adapted for this movie by Isobel Lennart.
- GoofsJane Fonda, wanting to be reassured and comforted, telephones her father, tells him she has just been married, and cries. There is no explanation of why her parents have not been at the wedding, or even been told about it before this, and it is puzzling that they have not been if she is on affectionate terms with them.
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Ralph Baitz: The human heart could never pass the drunk test. Take a human heart out of a human body, put legs on it and tell it to walk a straight line, and it couldn't. The heart could never pass a drunk test.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 7 Nights to Remember (1966)
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Inward-looking play on marriage--far from a comedy
I am amused that this film based on Tennessee William's work got nominated as a comedy for two different cinema awarding bodies. If this is a comedy, so would Albee's "Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf" be termed a comedy. Can this work be called a black comedy? Even this is doubtful--you could call "MASH" a black comedy but not "Period of Adjustment."
The play made me sit up, not laugh. The play may not be of the same caliber as William's other work like "The Night of Iguana" or "The Streetcar named Desire" but it forces the audience to look inwards. Unfortunately, director George Roy Hill in his first regular film effort as a director does not display the capability that he showed in directing his later films ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting," "A Little Romance," etc.). He fumbles with his editing: the shift of scene from the Baitz' to the Haversticks on stage would have been aided by a curtain or the lights going off, but in this film the switch from Fonda/Hutton to Franciosa/Nettleton is too abrupt and confusing. Yet Roy Hill shows his capability of eliciting fine performances from his cast, especially Jane Fonda (as he did later with Redford, Newman and Lord Laurence Olivier), and the dog!
Viewing this film 40 years after it was made, one cannot but appreciate the values of Tennessee Williams (and George Roy Hill) and the subject under discussion. How many contemporary directors would venture to make a film of the play today?
The film is fine entertainment value for those who like a good play on film (you need cinema to show visual shock of viewing the hearse for the first time, the stage can never provide the same effect).
The play made me sit up, not laugh. The play may not be of the same caliber as William's other work like "The Night of Iguana" or "The Streetcar named Desire" but it forces the audience to look inwards. Unfortunately, director George Roy Hill in his first regular film effort as a director does not display the capability that he showed in directing his later films ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting," "A Little Romance," etc.). He fumbles with his editing: the shift of scene from the Baitz' to the Haversticks on stage would have been aided by a curtain or the lights going off, but in this film the switch from Fonda/Hutton to Franciosa/Nettleton is too abrupt and confusing. Yet Roy Hill shows his capability of eliciting fine performances from his cast, especially Jane Fonda (as he did later with Redford, Newman and Lord Laurence Olivier), and the dog!
Viewing this film 40 years after it was made, one cannot but appreciate the values of Tennessee Williams (and George Roy Hill) and the subject under discussion. How many contemporary directors would venture to make a film of the play today?
The film is fine entertainment value for those who like a good play on film (you need cinema to show visual shock of viewing the hearse for the first time, the stage can never provide the same effect).
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- JuguAbraham
- Nov 9, 2004
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- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
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