
This is the story of a 36 year old man, Jim Fuller, released from prison after serving a three year term for intent to commit child molestation. Fuller is assisted by the prison psychiatrist in obtaining a position. He does well in this position and falls in love with the secretary of the owner of the company. A child is molested and beaten in the town where he now lives and the police pick him up for questioning. He has an alibi and is released, but a reporter who covered hi... (Full plot summary below)
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This is the story of a 36 year old man, Jim Fuller, released from prison after serving a three year term for intent to commit child molestation. Fuller is assisted by the prison psychiatrist in obtaining a position. He does well in this position and falls in love with the secretary of the owner of the company. A child is molested and beaten in the town where he now lives and the police pick him up for questioning. He has an alibi and is released, but a reporter who covered his former trial recognizes him. The reporter begins to follow him and reports that Fuller spent time alone with the daughter of his girl friend.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyBest-known for Stuart Whitman Oscar-nominated turn, this b/w film concerns a man who, after serving time in prison for molesting a girl, starts a new life with the aid of a kind psychiatrist (Rod Steiger) and a sensitive woman (Maria Schell). |
| User ReviewBruce BHow could this movie be bad, its got Rod Steiger in it, after all he was born in the same town as I and the same Day, just not the same year, thank God. Movie show's how people really think about you no matter what you have gone through. Stereo Type. Its in Black & White and Ole School but a hell of a film. My opion this should be part of the Criterion Collection. |
| User ReviewJohn BThis is quite the tale with a level of sophistication that was only starting to emerge during the sixties. The topics are taboo and the acting required to pull something like this off are significant. I think Stuart Whitman does it well. |
| User ReviewMartin LOctober of 1961 this film was released in New York City. It starred Stuart Whitman in his only Academy Award-nominated role. This was a British film, but distributed in the U.S.A. through 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. This was directed by Guy Green, a native of Summerset, England. He was also an Academy-Award winner for 1946's GREAT EXPECTATIONS (for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White). Stuart Whitman, a native Californian, played "Jim Fuller", an expatriate of Canada, who decided to stay in Britain after fighting in World War II. Whitman plays a professional, educated businessman, who has just recently been released from prison for attempting to molest a child. Rod Steiger, an Academy-Award winner and very famous screen actor in his day, plays Fuller's psychiatrist, whom he is legally obligated to see almost every day as part of his parole. This is a fascinating character study. Besides Whitman's Oscar nod, this film was also nominated for the Cannes Golden Palm in 1961 and won the 1962 Golden Globe for Best English Film. |