A good yarn and a true one although with some modifications to the facts I have no doubt. It's about the events leading up to the murder of the American architect Standord White by playboy Harry Kendall Thaw and briefly, about what happened afterwards. I suppose you could say it's a prestige production, lavishly done in widescreen, (it certainly looks the part), and with two 'stars', (Ray Milland and Farley Granger), in the roles of White and Thaw. I use the term stars cautiously, however, as Milland was, by now, getting on a bit and Granger never really made it to the front rank.
The girl of the title and the cause of all the trouble is one, Evelyn Nesbitt, (Joan Collins, being launched here in America). She's barely adequate and one can hardly imagine men being driven to murder over her, but no matter, it moves at a good lick and Richard Fleischer, while never the most imaginative director in the movies, wasn't one to let us down and keeps everything on a very professional level. The same story served as a segment of "Ragtime" with a much more convincing Nesbitt from Elizabeth McGovern.
The girl of the title and the cause of all the trouble is one, Evelyn Nesbitt, (Joan Collins, being launched here in America). She's barely adequate and one can hardly imagine men being driven to murder over her, but no matter, it moves at a good lick and Richard Fleischer, while never the most imaginative director in the movies, wasn't one to let us down and keeps everything on a very professional level. The same story served as a segment of "Ragtime" with a much more convincing Nesbitt from Elizabeth McGovern.