A Rage To Live
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Walter Grauman
Suzanne Pleshette
Bradford Dillman
Ben Gazzara
Peter Graves
Bethel Leslie
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Grace Caldwell, a wealthy college student who craves male attention, has an affair with Charlie Jay, whose parents find out and tell Grace's widowed mother. Mrs. Caldwell, who suffers from a heart condition, suspects the extent of her daughter's promiscuity and travels with her to Nassau for a vacation. While Grace becomes involved with a hotel waiter, her mother has a heart attack and dies from lack of care. Her brother Brock introduces Grace to a college friend, Sidney Tate, who consoles her after her mother's death, and they decide to marry. Grace explains her past to Sidney, but he insists that their love will overcome her desire for other men. For 2 1/2 years they live happily on a farm and have a baby boy; then Roger Bannon, a self-made building construction manager and the son of one of her mother's former servants, rebuilds their barn. He makes advances to Grace, and she succumbs. Jack Hollister, a successful editor and self-righteous hypocrite, tries to make love to Grace, but she refuses his attentions. Fearing the impairment of relations with her husband, she decides to end her affair with Roger; and when she notifies Roger he gets drunk, mistreats a waitress, and dies in a subsequent car crash. When police investigate the death, Grace's affair becomes public knowledge, whereupon Sidney threatens to leave her if her promiscuity continues. At a charity bazaar, the jealous wife of Jack Hollister publicly denounces Grace as the cause of her own failing marriage. Though Grace insists upon her innocence, Jack, bitter from rejection, does not deny the accusation, and Sidney abandons Grace.
Director
Walter Grauman
Cast
Suzanne Pleshette
Bradford Dillman
Ben Gazzara
Peter Graves
Bethel Leslie
Carmen Mathews
Linden Chiles
James Gregory
Ruth White
Mark Goddard
Sarah Marshall
George Furth
Virginia Christine
Brett Somers
Frank Maxwell
Crew
Ray Boltz
Norman Breedlove
Stanley Campbell
Richard Carruth
Leon Charles
Doris Durkus
Emmett Emerson
Arthur Ferrante
Arthur Friedrich
Stuart Gilmore
Paula Giokaris
Doris Grau
Gil Grau
Russ Hamlin
John T. Kelley
Charles Lawton
Gil Marchant
Mirisch Corp.
Al Overton Jr.
Lewis J. Rachmil
Nelson Riddle
Noel Sherman
Howard Shoup
Lynn Stalmaster
James Sullivan
Louis Teicher
Allen K. Wood
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Costume Design
Quotes
All right, you win. You get your dull little story off your big manly chest, but you make it fast, huh?- Grace Caldwell
Right.- Roger Bannon
From the first time I saw you -- and that was five years ago, when I worked for Lanigan and Doyle -- I haven't been able to stop looking. Not that I wanted to stop. Looking at you became one of the big pleasures of my life. Maybe the biggest. It got so I had you memorized. But I didn't realize that until I was overseas for a while. Then, all the other things began to get hazy. But I could close my eyes and see you just as clear. Not only your face -- everything. Even the way the back of your legs look when you walk away. And all that time, I've been wanting you. And I guess I'll probably go on wanting you until they shovel me into the ground. Here's your keys.- Roger Bannon
I thought I loved him, and then I found I could feel the same way about someone else, someone different.- Grace Caldwell
Grace, that isn't love.- Brock Caldwell
No. But it's being wanted and needed and held close. It's almost love.- Grace Caldwell
"Almost love"? You don't have to settle for that.- Brock Caldwell
I'm not settling.- Grace Caldwell
Trivia
Notes
Copyright claimants: Mirisch Corp. and Araho Corp.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1965
Released in United States 1965
