A Rage to Live

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6.3/10

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Suzanne Pleshette in A Rage to Live (1965)

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Drama

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

814

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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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)

This is soap opera pure and simple about a woman who in more enlightened times would have been viewed as a person with a crippling disorder that would require treatment but for our purposes here is a wanton slut. Suzanne Pleshette was a superior actress so she is able within the confines of the script to present her character as someone who is ruled by urges she can not control. There are minor attempts at some insight into her problem but they are quickly tossed away in favor of sensationalism. Good supporting cast including in a small role a rare on screen role for Brett Somers Klugman from Match Game. For those who enjoy trashy cinema with quality actors enacting silly situations with earnest professionalism.