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From the Terrace

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Alfred Eaton (Paul Newman) returns home after World War II, driven to be as successful as possible out of hatred toward his wealthy father (Leon Ames). He is unendingly ambitious: founding an aircraft construction company with his friend Lex (George Grizzard), marrying a socialite (Joanne Woodward) and leveraging a fortunate encounter with a powerful financier (Felix Aylmer) into a new career. When he meets the beautiful, truthful Natalie (Ina Balin), Alfred has a crisis of conscience.
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Variety Staff Variety From The Terrace builds up to one big cliche. Jun 17, 2008 Full Review Time Out Robson's film is still highly watchable, with Paul and Joanne pretending their marriage is on the rocks, and all sorts of machinations in the boardroom and the bedroom. Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Howard Thompson New York Times This is a handsome picture, well-performed and emotionally intriguing as it describes the rise of a young business man and the corrosive dead-lock of his loveless marriage. Rated: 4/5 May 9, 2005 Full Review Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine Another bulky novel, this one with a contemporary American locale, has been turned into a long, expensive movie - but the results are only occasionally absorbing. Nov 7, 2019 Full Review Nathanael Hood The Retro Set Scintillates and wounds with the scale and ambition of a CinemaScope epic and the intimacy of an old school Hollywood weepie. Rated: 8/10 Dec 28, 2018 Full Review Isabel Quigly The Spectator Few novelists film as disastrously as John O'Hara; From the Terrace has everything that makes for overblown filming: every giant cliche you can think of. May 9, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kevin O I absolutely loved this film! And it was real scandalous, too! 🤣 I was flipping through the channels and decided to watch it on a humbug. Paul Newman is one of my favorite actors and I really enjoyed his performance. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/13/23 Full Review John H From the Terrace is, of course, not fresh on the screen. It was made in my world, in a time of more authentic lives. No exploding car chases and gunfire. Unbridled passions....all designed to rivet your attention for a brief while and leave you gasping. Instead, I watched a pleasant story by a talented author, re-scripted with a certain style and dignity for what was once revered as the 'silver screen'. Lives certainly much different from mine. It gave me a look at people who I was pleased to think of as real in their world while understanding full well it was never thicker than everyday, paper-thin Hollywood. That's why Hollywood is Hollywood....there to crank up passions which appeal to a wide array of welcoming minds. It was easy to buy into the relationship between Alfred and Natalie. To dislike Mrs. Eaton and Dr. Roper. Every character played to perfection, their origins lifted from John O'Hara's novel. I'll enjoy watching From the Terrace again next year. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/21 Full Review steve d The acting makes it work. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member You'll never forget Myrna Loy's performance. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Just as disappointing as the other John O'Hara novel made into a movie that year, Butterfield 8 with Liz Taylor, but without that film's melodramatic juice, though Paul Newman is well cast as the ambitious, upwardly mobile man in moral crisis. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member A mediocre rehash of The Young Philadelphians. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Mark Robson

Director

Paul Newman

David Alfred Eaton

Joanne Woodward

Mary St. John

Myrna Loy

Martha Eaton

Ina Balin

Natalie Benzinger

Leon Ames

Samuel Eaton

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Synopsis Alfred Eaton (Paul Newman) returns home after World War II, driven to be as successful as possible out of hatred toward his wealthy father (Leon Ames). He is unendingly ambitious: founding an aircraft construction company with his friend Lex (George Grizzard), marrying a socialite (Joanne Woodward) and leveraging a fortunate encounter with a powerful financier (Felix Aylmer) into a new career. When he meets the beautiful, truthful Natalie (Ina Balin), Alfred has a crisis of conscience.
Director
Mark Robson
Producer
Mark Robson
Screenwriter
Ernest Lehman
Production Co
Linebrook
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 1, 2011
Runtime
2h 24m
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