From the Terrace

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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 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/13/23 Full Review Mark N Perhaps I view the movie with the sense of old Tom Hollywood and that movies don't have to reflect accurately or precisely everyday life but that Hollywood and the movies are about entertainment most often. Given as much, I enjoyed the movie very much. The acting. The story. The idealistic and yet in many ways realistic ending. Greed, sex, love and belonging are the strongest themes and are evident constantly throughout the film. I found myself inspired and moved by the caring genuine character betrayal by Natalie (lovely Ina Balin). Without thinking about it for more than one half minute,I would rate the movie as high as I suspect any love story I have seen on screen. Maybe I'm a product of my time and age but there is no way I can give a low 31% rating to this film; on immediate impulse after watching the movie I would have to rate it an 88% at the least. I think the movie speaks to a noble and honest loving relationship that might have been aspired for by society at the time it was filmed, but perhaps that time, much like the story of Camelot, was one brief shining moment and perhaps day to day life for far too many people is as H.D. Thoreau said, a life of 'quiet desperation.' I enjoyed the movie, and was delighted to see a thing Ina Balin in a film exhibit her talent along side other talented actors. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/04/22 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 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/21 Full Review steve d The acting makes it work. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member You'll never forget Myrna Loy's performance. Rated 5/5 Stars •  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 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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