A Rage to Live

1965
X
1h 41m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Suzanne Pleshette in A Rage to Live (1965)

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A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

838

YOUR RATING

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

I know this movie doesn't deserve a 7, but it's very entertaining if you like scandalous happenings amongst the small town elite.

Suzanne Pleshette is gorgeous and alluring even as she is conflicted by inappropriate liaisons with men. It's not her fault that she looks like a lush 30-year old when she's supposed to be 16.

We are led to believe she has a disorder (nymphomania), but maybe her actions are just outside the norms of the town which seems mired more in 1955 than 1965? There is no need to recap the plot here. If you like movies where upset people grip highball glasses and gulp down liquor, or make out with people not their husbands in cars with rain/steamed windows, you'll love A RAGE TO LIVE (based on the novel by John O'Hara).

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Trivia
The on-screen epilogue is taken from Alexander Pope's "Epistle II --- To a Lady --- Of the Characters of Women" (1735): "Wise Wretch! with Pleasures too refin'd to please, With too much Spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much Quickness ever to be taught, With too much Thinking to have common Thought: You purchase Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live."

Goofs
No interior rear-view mirror in Suzanne Pleshette's estate car when she gives Ben Gazzara a lift in the rain.

Quotes
Grace Caldwell: I thought I loved him, and then I found I could feel the same way about someone else, someone different.
Brock Caldwell: Grace, that isn't love.
Grace Caldwell: No. But it's being wanted and needed and held close. It's almost love.
Brock Caldwell: "Almost love"? You don't have to settle for that.
Grace Caldwell: I'm not settling.
Brock Caldwell: I just don't get this. You talk like a girl who's got nothing else in her life, who nobody cares about ...
Grace Caldwell: No ...
Brock Caldwell: Well, that's the way it sounds --
Grace Caldwell: I don't care how it sounds. When I feel that way, I can't think of anything else. Doesn't matter who I am or what I'm supposed to be. Nothing matters. I can't help it.

Soundtracks
Rage To Live
Music by Art Ferrante and Lou Teicher
Lyrics by Noel Sherman
Performed on two pianos by Art Ferrante (as Ferrante) and Lou Teicher (as Teicher)