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Bookmark this pageLove With the Proper Stranger (1963)
Director: Robert Mulligan
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From Time Out Film Guide
Charmingly bitter-sweet tale of the carefree jazz musician and the romantic shop-girl he gets pregnant, leading her to a back-street abortionist as a preferable alternative to facing her strict Italo-American family. Familiar in theme, but given a delightfully fresh flavour by Mulligan's atmospherically low-key direction, excellent performances from Wood and McQueen, and vivid location shooting in New York's Little Italy (the musician's union hall at the beginning, the amusement park, the sad and shabby street of the abortionist). Edie Adams is outstanding as the quizzically cynical stripper with whom McQueen is shacked up, but who is given a characteristically raw deal by a script working its way toward the obligatory happy ending.Author: TM
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- meiling said...
- Posted on Apr 01 2008 17:50 Nice movie, cute. EXCELLENTacting specially Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen. Watched it zillion times and love it more each time!
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Cast & crew
Director: Robert Mulligan
Producer: Alan J Pakula
Cast: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi, Tom Bosley, Harvey Lembeck, Nick Alexander, Penny Santoni full cast
Duration: 102 mins
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