Like the contemporary " this earth is mine" , this disjointed melodrama looks like a pilot for a non-existent TV series ; there are so many characters that the viewer gets lost in a story more complicated than complex : no real central character but in the first third ,almost every scene introduces a new face and leaves the viewer panting for breath.
The implausible suicide of very attractive Helen -Susan Kohner , who had already played opposite Lana turner in Douglas Sirk's highly superior "imitation of life" - only happens to put the people on the right track :for instance,Marjorie B (sic)(Turner) gives up leaving her impotent husband (Jason Robards ) ; Warren Winner (George Hamilton) comes back after trying to escape and is going to face his future trial , abetted by his father (Efrem Zimbalist Jr) :with a surname like that ,how could they lose ?and the patriarch's embezzlement will be hushed .
In fact ,the story could go on and on and on
The implausible suicide of very attractive Helen -Susan Kohner , who had already played opposite Lana turner in Douglas Sirk's highly superior "imitation of life" - only happens to put the people on the right track :for instance,Marjorie B (sic)(Turner) gives up leaving her impotent husband (Jason Robards ) ; Warren Winner (George Hamilton) comes back after trying to escape and is going to face his future trial , abetted by his father (Efrem Zimbalist Jr) :with a surname like that ,how could they lose ?and the patriarch's embezzlement will be hushed .
In fact ,the story could go on and on and on