Tender Is the Night

United States

1962

142 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 2.6/5 Stars.
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SCR Ivan Moffat, F. Scott Fitzgerald

CAST Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell, Cesare Danova, Jill St. John, Paul Lukas, Bea Benaderet, Charles E. Fredericks, Sanford Meisner, Mac McWhorter, Albert Carrier, Richard De Combray, Carole Mathews, Alan Napier, Leslie Farrell, Michael Crisalli, Earl Grant

PROD DES Malcolm Brown, Jack Martin Smith

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated novel tells the story of wealthy psychologist Dick Diver and his mentally unstable wife, Nicole. In the opening, the Divers are giving a Fourth of July party for their friends at their home on the French Riviera. Nicole becomes upset when Dick’s attention is diverted by a young American actress. She retreats to their room upstairs where she has a fit of hysterics. Dick sedates her and puts her to bed. In a flashback, he remembers how he first met and fell in love with Nicole when she was his patient in Zurich. Several years later, they marry and begin traveling throughout Europe in a whirlwind lifestyle full of drinking and parties. Nicole’s condition improves but Dick, however, begins to lose confidence in himself and his professional life suffers. Nicole, unable to regain her husbands faith in himself, succumbs to the charms of another man and divorces Dick. —Hiwaay.net

Director

Henry King

After a start as a stage actor, Henry Kingbegan appearing in films in 1912, and by 1915 was directing. King made numerous dramas, westerns, and actioners over the teens, achieving special distinction with his 1919 comedy 23-1/2 Hours Leave. Two years later he co-wrote, produced, and directed the landmark rural drama Tol’able David; his other important works of the ‘20s include The White Sister (1923), Romola (1925), and The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926). A prolific and reliable craftsman, King made numerous handsome films into the early 1960s, most notably two outstanding films with Gregory Peck: a psychological drama of World War II, Twelve O’Clock High (1942), and the moody, intelligent western The Gunfighter (1950). King’s career is also notable for his feeling for Americana, as found in 1930s projects as different as State Fair (1933), Jesse James (1939), and In Old Chicago (1938), as well as in such later films as Remember the Day (1941) and Wait ’Til the Sun Shines, Nellie… read more