Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend Heavenly, the daughter of the local politician Tom 'Boss' Finley, who more or less forced him to leave the town many years ago.... (Full plot summary below)
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Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. While trying to get her help to make a screen test, he also finds the time to meet his former girlfriend Heavenly, the daughter of the local politician Tom 'Boss' Finley, who more or less forced him to leave the town many years ago.
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| Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum[Brooks's] second Williams adaptation (1962) is literally a form of emasculation that offers little indication of what made the original play interesting (especially in Elia Kazan’s stage production), despite the fact that Paul Newman and Geraldine Page are called on to reprise their original roles—as a hustler returning to his southern hometown and a Hollywood has-been—and do a fair job with Brooks’s hopeless script. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonSweet Bird of Youth is a tamer and tidied but arresting version of Tennessee Williams' Broadway play. It's a glossy, engrossing hunk of motion picture entertainment, slickly produced by Berman. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawThere is no clearer face for the conflict and despondency of the decade of the sixties than Newman's magnificent bastards. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullThe film gets a little bogged down in minutiae and irrelevant side plots, but on the whole it's solid and searing. |
| Los Angeles TimesTerry AtkinsonBrooks' direction seems a little too stolid for all the sleazy, flaming passions. |
| VarietyVariety StaffIt's a glossy, engrossing hunk of motion picture entertainment, slickly produced by Berman. |
| DVDJournal.comMark BourneWhen approaching 1962's Sweet Bird of Youth, go for the parts rather than the whole.... [T]he film is a long drive through swampy melodrama. |
| Las Vegas Review-JournalCarol ClingNewman and Page elevate Williams' melodramatic romance. |
| The New York TimesBosley CrowtherSweet Bird of Youth, for all its graphics and the vigorous performance of its top roles, has the taint of an engineered soap opera, wherein the soap is simply made of lye, that's all. |
| User ReviewOlga Bone of Paul Newman best movies! Love will save everyone |
