From the Terrace

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From the Terrace

1960,

2h 24m,

Drama

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30%

10 Reviews

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58%

1,000+ Ratings

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58%

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1,000+ Ratings

Alfred Eaton (Paul Newman) returns home after World War II, driven to be as successful as possible out of hatred toward his wealthy father (Leon Ames). He is unendingly ambitious: founding an aircraft construction company with his friend Lex (George Grizzard), marrying a socialite (Joanne Woodward) and leveraging a fortunate encounter with a powerful financier (Felix Aylmer) into a new career. When he meets the beautiful, truthful Natalie (Ina Balin), Alfred has a crisis of conscience.

Variety Staff

Variety

Jun 17, 2008

From The Terrace builds up to one big cliche.

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Howard Thompson

New York Times

May 9, 2005

4/5

This is a handsome picture, well-performed and emotionally intriguing as it describes the rise of a young business man and the corrosive dead-lock of his loveless marriage.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Jan 1, 2000

A tolerable (if interminable) piece of mediocrity from 1960.

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Clyde Gilmour

Maclean's Magazine

Nov 7, 2019

Another bulky novel, this one with a contemporary American locale, has been turned into a long, expensive movie - but the results are only occasionally absorbing.

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Nathanael Hood

The Retro Set

Dec 28, 2018

8/10

Scintillates and wounds with the scale and ambition of a CinemaScope epic and the intimacy of an old school Hollywood weepie.

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Isabel Quigly

The Spectator

May 9, 2018

Few novelists film as disastrously as John O'Hara; From the Terrace has everything that makes for overblown filming: every giant cliche you can think of.

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Finn R

Mar 25, 2018

Just as disappointing as the other John O'Hara novel made into a movie that year, Butterfield 8 with Liz Taylor, but without that film's melodramatic juice, though Paul Newman is well cast as the ambitious, upwardly mobile man in moral crisis.

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Rey S

Apr 25, 2017

A mediocre rehash of The Young Philadelphians.

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Mark Robson

Director

Paul Newman

David Alfred Eaton

Joanne Woodward

Mary St. John

Myrna Loy

Martha Eaton

Ina Balin

Natalie Benzinger

Leon Ames

Samuel Eaton

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Synopsis

Alfred Eaton (Paul Newman) returns home after World War II, driven to be as successful as possible out of hatred toward his wealthy father (Leon Ames). He is unendingly ambitious: founding an aircraft construction company with his friend Lex (George Grizzard), marrying a socialite (Joanne Woodward) and leveraging a fortunate encounter with a powerful financier (Felix Aylmer) into a new career. When he meets the beautiful, truthful Natalie (Ina Balin), Alfred has a crisis of conscience.

Director: Mark Robson
Producer: Mark Robson
Screenwriter: Ernest Lehman
Production Co: Linebrook
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2011
Runtime: 2h 24m

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