"Mama face it, I was the slut of all time," Liz Taylor's hooker confronts her mother, and that's pretty much sums up the nature of this glossy, trashy melodrama that Hollywood used to make until TV appropriated the genre, even so, it's a guilty pleasure.
Butterfield 8 (1960)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:6
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 48 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Taylor's an eyeful as a sophisticated call girl wanting to go straight. The screen adaptation of O'Hara's novel grafts on a stock Hollywood ending, but the film is all Taylors's tour de force anyway.
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field, Jeffrey Lynn, Kay Medford, Susan Oliver
Director: Daniel Mann
Director: Daniel Mann
Composer: Bronislau Kaper
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
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When viewed today it's a work of considerable dreck, it's badly dated and unappealing.
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