

Still, everything else is so good she's easy to overlook. You see just jaw-droppingly beautiful scenery-and her drab, toneless voice droning on. Especially bad are her narrations over the scenery. Her face is always blank and her readings are in a monotone. The one debit is Diane Varsi-she's TERRIBLE as Alison MacKenzie. Everybody else (with one exception) is good but the ones mentioned above were the best. Lloyd Nolan is perfect as Doc Swain-he even gets the New England accent down right! Arthur Kennedy is downright terrifying as Lucas Cross and Hope Lange is fantastic as his step-daughter. Lana Turner is just great as Constance MacKenzie-a woman with a deep secret. Still, the main stories in the book come across.and it works very well. An abortion is never called that-it's called "inducing a miscarriage". The once racy stuff is very tame by today's standards but it's kind of amusing to watch-the dialogue scene between Diane Varsi and Russ Tamblyn (about sex) is giggle-inducing. It has a great cast, a stunning score by Franz Waxman, gorgeous New England photography and moves along at a fast clip. Now, almost 50 years later, it's considered a great literary novel and taught in colleges! Hollywood took the book, toned it down considerably, went all the way to Maine to film it and basically gave it Grade A treatment. It was a huge best seller but condemned as utter trash by all book critics and "moral" people everywhere (of course they were buying the book themselves). Even though the town (and residents) were fictitious, this book created an uproar.
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