Where Love Has Gone

A second-rate family scandal drama that often goes into very cringe-inducing territory. The film deals in sensational and taboo ideas, which are handled pretty awkwardly in the screenplay and feel out of place within a movie that otherwise still looks and feels like a 50s studio drama. Not always predictable, and Bette Davis is awesomely repugnant. A random Tubi pick during an LSD trip, it was oddly entrancing and seemed to have a lot of personal significance.

"He knew nothing about double-entry bookkeeping, but he was a pro at double-entry housekeeping." Good, tawdry Robbins camp. Davis understands this and plays it to the hilt--she's fabulous. Hayward seems to take it seriously, with, um, mixed results (the notion she's a well-known sculptor is quite amusing, though). Connors, luckily, soon found his milieu in television. The surprise is DeForest Kelley--he delivers his hardboiled lines as the corrupt art critic (!) with real aplomb.

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