Where Love Has Gone (1964)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Edward Dmytryk

Writers:

John Michael Hayes (writer)
Harold Robbins (novel)

Release Date:

2 November 1964 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

From the blistering best-seller! From the team that brought you 'The Carpetbaggers'! The explosive story of the violent world where a mother and her teenage daughter compete for the same lover...WHERE LOVE HAS GONE goes where no motion picture has ever dared go before!

Plot:

A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Trial | Teenage Daughter | Marriage | Ex Wife

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 nominations

Cast

Susan Hayward	...	Valerie Hayden Miller
Bette Davis	...	Mrs. Gerald Hayden
Mike Connors	...	Major Luke Miller (as Michael Connors)
Joey Heatherton	...	Danielle Valerie Miller
Jane Greer	...	Marian Spicer
DeForest Kelley	...	Sam Corwin
George Macready	...	Gordon Harris
Anne Seymour	...	Dr. Sally Jennings
Willis Bouchey	...	Judge Murphy
Walter Reed	...	George Babson
Ann Doran	...	Mrs. Geraghty
Bartlett Robinson	...	Mr. John Coleman
Whit Bissell	...	Professor Bell
Anthony Caruso	...	Rafael

Runtime:

111 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:18 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Portugal:17 (censored version)

Company:

Joseph E. Levine Productions

Trivia:

Although repeatedly denied at the time, this film (and the novel on which it was based) were widely believed to be about the infamous Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato murder case of 1958.

Quotes:

Mrs. Gerald Hayden: You have made it publicly obvious that you have only one concept of love... a vile and sinful one.
Valerie Hayden Miller: When you're dying of thirst, you drink fronm a mudhole.
Mrs. Gerald Hayden: You have devoted your life to mud and filth.
Valerie Hayden Miller: Only to get even with you.

Soundtrack:

WHERE LOVE HAS GONE

Where has the art director gone?

I'm going to side-step the whole Lana Turner murder plot and just address the big flaming hole in this film.

About ten minutes into the film, we flashback about twenty years to approximately 1944, where we remain for at least an hour. No one changes. Not one bit. Everyone looks exactly the same, even wearing the same 1964 costumes and hairstyles. Someone was thoughtful enough to give Luke a 1940s automobile, which he drives down a street full of 1960's cars! (In 1944, there shouldn't be a Corvair parked across the street). Besides the hair and clothes, all the homes are decorated in the same 1964 decor they had prior to the flashback (oh, those AWFUL grays that just ruin Hayward's "studio"...!) It doesn't really matter what redeeming qualities the film might have outside of this, and I didn't really see much, you can't just insult the hell out of your audience with a lousy flashback that is only twenty years earlier because the characters say it is, and expect them to respect the rest of the film. This is really, really bad; the so-called flashback is the worst art and set direction I have ever seen.