A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the married headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the married headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the married headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total
- Phil Sutcliff
- (as Doug Henderson)
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
- Trustee's Wife
- (uncredited)
- Celebrant #9
- (uncredited)
- Trooper
- (uncredited)
- Celebrant #7
- (uncredited)
- Walter Robinson
- (uncredited)
- Trustee
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRichard Burton tried to get out of making this movie but he was under contractual obligation.
- GoofsClaire Hewitt tells her husband that Danny "was reciting the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Old English." The language Chaucer wrote in, and that Danny recites in, is Middle English, not Old English.
- Quotes
Laura Reynolds: [they're on the beach, along the Big Sur] I feel as alone as Robinson Crusoe. Even with the footprints of a man beside me.
Dr. Edward Hewitt: You should always have a man's footprints beside you, Laura.
Laura Reynolds: How do you know I haven't always?
Dr. Edward Hewitt: Because you're afraid of them...
Laura Reynolds: But I'm not as afraid as you think.
Dr. Edward Hewitt: Do you think that one of these days Danny's going to feel somehow that you robbed him of a father?
Laura Reynolds: Well, that's a chance I'm gonna' have to take. Do you know something? If I were a devoted widow, and Danny's father were a dead war hero, would you be pitching me this bit about finding a second father to replace the dead one?
Dr. Edward Hewitt: Touché.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Elizabeth Taylor - An Intimate Portrait (1975)
- SoundtracksThe Shadow of Your Smile
Music by Johnny Mandel
Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Performed by Jack Sheldon
Set in the mid-sixties, when sexual morays were loosening but we were still in the grip of a churchy moralism, this had to be a controversial film, and I vaguely recall that it was. You can visit the locations used in the movie because some are easily recognizable, such as the store/club/restaurant in Big Sur known as "Nepenthe." And of course, there are the famous stone bridges on Highway One spanning two or three of the rugged chasms. Coursing through the movie, especially during the several seascapes, is the theme "The Shadow of Your Smile." It's a nice movie, if not a great one, and worth seeing more than once.
- writerasfilmcritic
- Apr 29, 2006
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- $5,300,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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