Cass Timberlane

Cass TimberlaneMiddle aged judge Cass Timberlane is a dutiful, dependable pillar of society. Platinum haired Jinny Marshland is a tomboy from the other side of the tracks. When the two fall for each other and dare to marry, the staid Minnesota city where they live becomes a brushfire of gossip and rejection. "In Love with Her Was Like Being in an Earthquake" the film's ads trumpeted, and audiences eagerly queued for the seismic emotional ride of a film, based on the

most of whom are not loved in return

Joe Gimlet

with the two men climbing towers in a blinding blizzard to repair lines "as hot as an electric chair

" the rural preacher tells Sunday School children

secret passageways

In search of the killers

Busby Berkeley

but those comparisons would soon end

Co-written by Beatty and Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Robert Towne

Eleanor Parker

Billy Crudup

Placing the baby in a Zanzibar brothel