A Rage to Live (1965)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Walter Grauman

Writers:

John T. Kelley (writer)
John O'Hara (novel)

Release Date:

3 December 1965 (Finland)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

The names and places didn't matter . . . only when!

Plot:

A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Cuckold | Based On Novel | Independent Film

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Suzanne Pleshette	...	Grace Caldwell Tate
Bradford Dillman	...	Sidney Tate
Ben Gazzara	...	Roger Bannon
Peter Graves	...	Jack Hollister
Bethel Leslie	...	Amy Hollister
Carmen Mathews	...	Emily Caldwell
Linden Chiles	...	Brock Caldwell
James Gregory	...	Dr. O'Brien
Ruth White	...	Mrs. Bannon
Mark Goddard	...	Charlie Jay
Sarah Marshall	...	Connie
George Furth	...	Paul Rutherford
Virginia Christine	...	Emma

Also Known As:

John O'Hara's A Rage to Live (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Finland:K-16

Company:

Mirisch Corporation, The

Trivia:

According to pre-production publicity, Anne Bancroft was originally sought for role eventually played by Suzanne Pleshette.

Quotes:

Grace Caldwell: I thought I loved him, and then I found I could feel the same way about someone else, someone different.
Brock Caldwell: Grace, that isn't love.
Grace Caldwell: No. But it's being wanted and needed and held close. It's almost love.
Brock Caldwell: "Almost love"? You don't have to settle for that.
Grace Caldwell: I'm not settling.
Brock Caldwell: I just don't get this. You talk like a girl who's got nothing else in her life, who nobody cares about ...
Grace Caldwell: No ...
Brock Caldwell: Well, that's the way it sounds --
Grace Caldwell: I don't care how it sounds. When I feel that way, I can't think of anything else. Doesn't matter who I am or what I'm supposed to be. Nothing matters. I can't help it.

Soundtrack:

Rage To Live

Entertaining In The Way Eating A Quart of Ice Cream Could Be Called Nourishing

This thing is dreadful.. It treats "nymphomania" as if it were transmissible. I hope no teenaged girls saw, and were terrified by, this thing when it came out. It could have had lasting ill effects on their psyches. It probably got a far wider release than "The Naked Kiss," which came out at around the same time, is about a woman with "a reputation," and is infinitely superior.