An affair to forget
Fred MacMurray plays a family man named Clifford Groves who falls in love with his old sweetheart named Norma Miller Vale (Barbara Stanwyck). When a likeable and well-mannered man is taken for granted by his wife and children, he obviously gets bored, but all that changes when Ms. Vale walks into his life. Their friendship blossoms and matures into romance. Groves comes to realize what he missed in life, the love and care he so deserved. When Groves’ children discover the relationship, they confront his girlfriend. After a conversation with them she makes them realize how much they ignored their father. Barbara Stanwyck looks splendid when she talks to the kids a like a woman of wisdom. The writer and the director have handled this delicate situation wonderfully. The kids understand and realize how much they hurt their father.
This is an absorbing drama about family, loneliness and the temptation of past romances which is based on Ursula Parrot’s novel and the screenplay by Bernard Schoenfeld. The chemistry between MacMurray and Stanwyck is not as great as it was in the other box-office hit, “Double Indemnity.” Stanwyck looks a little old in this 1956 movie but “Double Indemnity” was made in 1944. Joan Bennett does a splendid job as a family focused woman.
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