Unnecessary follow-up to 1957's "Peyton Place", featuring none of that film's on-screen talent, concerns a young literary woman from small, gossipy New England town who publishes a roman a clef about her friends and neighbors, causing a scandal. One can only watch and wonder what original "Peyton Place" authoress Grace Metalious thought of this fatuous extension of her characters (hopefully she was paid off). Producer Jerry Wald (who helmed both pictures) comes up with nothing but recycled clichés, and his large, new cast (including Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Tuesday Weld and Eleanor Parker) get lost among the suds. *1/2 from ****
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