A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Paul Henreid's cello-playing was dubbed by Eleanor Aller (Mrs Felix Slatkin) while she was pregnant with Frederic Zlotkin. Her father, Gregory Aller, coached Henreid in plausible bow movements.
The cello concerto composed for this film by Erich Wolfgang Korngold was composed as two shorter pieces for filming purposes. After the film was released, they were combined as two movements of a finished concerto making Korngold's Cello Concerto one of the shortest on the concert hall stage at about 12 minutes.
Alexander Hollenius:
[snatches his bleeding hand away from Christine Radcliffe] Like all women: white as a sheet at the sight of a couple of scratches... but calm and smiling as a hospital nurse in the presence of a mortal wound... Good night!
Version of
Jealousy (1929)
Edited into
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Referenced in
All About Bette (1994) (TV)
Featured in
The American Film Institute Salute to Bette Davis (1977) (TV)
Point of No Return (1993)
Between Two Worlds: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (2001) (TV)
- Scenes used in this documentary.
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006) (TV)
- film clip shown