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Love Has Many Faces
Love Has Many Faces
	film poster by Howard Terpning
Directed by	Alexander Singer
Written by	Marguerite Roberts
Produced by	Jerry Bresler
Starring	Lana Turner; Cliff Robertson; Hugh O'Brian
Cinematography	Joseph Ruttenberg
Edited by	Alma Macrorie
Music by	David Raksin
Production; company	Jerry Bresler Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	February 24, 1965 (New York City);
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1,100,000

Love Has Many Faces is a 1965 American drama film directed by Alexander Singer, and written by Marguerite Roberts. Nancy Wilson sings the title song and Edith Head designed Lana Turner's clothes.

Plot edit

When a dead American "beach boy" is washed up on a beach in Acapulco, the police do an investigation to see if it was murder. Lieutenant Riccardo Andrade (Enrique Lucero) of the Mexican police interviews three suspects. Hank Walker (Hugh O'Brian) is another beach boy who works as a gigolo as well as blackmails vacationing middle-aged American women. Pete Jordan (Cliff Robertson) is a former beach boy who married rich American Kit (Lana Turner). She met Pete when he was selling his blood and bought all of him. The dead man was wearing a bracelet engraved "LOVE IS THIN ICE," which the police discover was given to him by Kit. They also discover that he'd had an affair with her.

In addition to the police, the dead American's deserted girlfriend, Carol Lambert (Stefanie Powers), comes to Mexico to find out about her former boyfriend's death.

Cast edit

Lana Turner as Katherine Lawson "Kit" Chandler Jordan
Cliff Robertson as Pete Jordan
Hugh O'Brian as Hank Walker
Ruth Roman as Margot Eliot
Stefanie Powers as Carol Lambert
Virginia Grey as Irene Talbot
Ron Husmann as Chuck Austin
Enrique Lucero as Lieutenant Riccardo Andrade
Carlos Montalbán as Don Julian
Jaime Bravo as Manuel Perez
Fanny Schiller as Maria
René Dupeyrón as Ramos

Beach Boy Quotes edit

Nothing illegal, just immoral
Always treat a tramp like a lady and a lady like a tramp.
Is there anything you wouldn't do for money? If there is I haven't found it yet.
Money may wrinkle, but it never gets old.

Critical reception edit

The New York Times was unimpressed: “Everything has been done to make Lana Turner feel at home in Love Has Many Faces, starting geographically. The picture, shot in color in Acapulco and Mexico City, provides a radiant background of natural scenery and swanky interiors as befits a glamour queen...It’s all here—everything but a good picture. For this dramatic Columbia round-up of some resort parasites...is the glossiest kind of junk, even for Miss Turner. If ever baloney needed mustard, it was yesterday. There must have been some lying around Acapulco Beach, along with the cast...Miss Turner is finally done in by a bull. That’s right—a bull. There’s plenty of it in Love Has Many Faces.”^[2]

References edit

^ Anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America. See "Top Grossers of 1965", Variety, 5 January 1966 p 36.
^ Thompson, Howard. “’Love Has Many Faces’ Opens at Capitol.” New York Times, 25 February 1965, 24.