Lilith (1964)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Robert Rossen

Writers:

Robert Rossen (writer)
J.R. Salamanca (novel)

Release Date:

27 September 1964 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

'POWERFUL SHOCKER ABOUT LOVE!'

Plot:

Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her...

Plot Keywords:

Lilith | One Word Title | Character Study | Psychiatric Nurse | Therapist

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe.

Cast

Warren Beatty	...	Vincent Bruce
Jean Seberg	...	Lilith Arthur
Peter Fonda	...	Stephen Evshevsky
Kim Hunter	...	Dr. Bea Brice
Anne Meacham	...	Mrs.Yvonne Meaghan
Jessica Walter	...	Laura
Gene Hackman	...	Norman
James Patterson	...	Dr. Lavrier
Robert Reilly	...	Bob Clayfield

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Chestnut Lodge - 500 W. Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, Maryland, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Jean Seberg regarded "Lilith" as her favorite film.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the staff and patients are loading up to go on their picnic, one of the cars is a 1959 Ford station wagon. When they arrive at their destination, the car has changed into a 1960 Ford wagon.

Quotes:

Lilith Arthur: You've killed with these hands. Why?
Vincent Bruce: That's the business of a soldier.
Lilith Arthur: You must love your God a lot to kill for him and still go on loving him. I'd never ask that of a lover. I'd only ask his joy.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Edge of Sensation (1990)

First-rate cast holds interest...

The last film from director Robert Rossen, who also adapted the screenplay from J.R. Salamanca's book, concerns the new intern at a mental hospital in Maryland who has an affair with one of his patients, a beautiful but deeply disturbed young woman. Handsomely-made, carefully mounted drama can't avoid pretensions, and parts of it are ponderous, dour and unmoving. The terrific cast (Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Gene Hackman and Peter Fonda among them) do some fine work, and Kenyon Hopkins supplies a blissful background score, but the film really doesn't have the courage to tackle the intricacies of its own subject matter, and the results seem half-baked. ** from ****