Strangers When We Meet (1960) Film Drama

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The awarded architect Larry Coe lives a boring marriage with his wife Eve Coe and their two young sons in the suburb. Larry is designing and constructing an unique house to the successful writer Roger Altar (Ernie Kovacs) on the top of a hill. Margaret ‘Maggie’ Gault is a sexy blond sexually neglected by her husband Ken Gault that lives in the same neighborhood and they have a young son. When Larry meets Maggie at the bus stop of the school bus, he unsuccessfully hits on her. But soon they encounter each other again and they have a love affair. They fall in love with each other, but when their despicable neighbor Felix Anders discovers their affair, they have to decide between loyalty and respect to their families or love.

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28 Replies to “Strangers When We Meet (1960) Film Drama”

  1. Love Kirk Douglas in this – but I’d have to disagree we most people about Kim Novak. She is beautiful, beautiful enough to carry the story off, but she is a giant drip. I get she’s tortured by the lack of spark in her life, I totally get that, but for me she this over into depressive.

  10. I usually watch my Jack Lemmon or 60’s movies on a Sunday but I couldn’t wait for this one lol, I’m watching it on a Wednesday! thank you 🥰

  11. Thank you to Kinopanorama for all these wonderful videos. I am looking forward to watching this one but need to steel myself opposite my long held and visceral reaction of loathing….Kirk Douglas. No rhyme nor reason to this reaction , it formed the very first time I saw him on screen which was a thousand years ago ! I can appreciate that he is comparatively , a good enough actor but it’s the mere sight of him , his voice, strutting arrogance etc etc …….! But again , thank you for movies – they are much much appreciated .

  12. Great movie, so true to reality. Kirk the last actor from that golden era of Hollywood to go at 104. This movie in part reminds me of Falling in Love, a 1984 film starring Robert De Niro & Meryl Streep. De Niro was a builder not architect who's married but falls for Streep also married. Storyline very similar & Kim Novak gives a great performance in this one. Shadow of boom mic seen at 1:54:07 when Kim Novak is looking out window.

  15. Movies like this turn my stomach because they hit too close to home. I lived as a kid through this kind of drama in Levittown, Pa in the late 50's mid 60s. It was the only aspect of Suburban life I HATED as a kid. This kind of affair damaged a lot of kids. Indiscretions away from home were tolerated but with the upper middle class suburbs the antics of both sexes were fueled by a target rich environment. My Dad was a womanizer and he ran havoc in this period of the late 50's and early 60's with bored housewives and my mother finally gave up on him and took us back to Texas for country living. I never forgave my Dad for his antics, I was the youngest but he really damaged my older teen brother. He messed us brothers all up, we survived but we never thrived in relationships. I was the only one of us that had kids and they were damaged by my own wife's indiscretions, again in the Suburbs. My kids stick to me primarily now, just as I stuck to my mom who like me, never remarried.

  20. I find it unlikely on a site full of movie fans, but if you have not seen "Letter From an Unknown Woman" ; "Leave Her to Heaven" "All That Heaven Allows" and "Magnificent Obsession" you are missing cinematic greatness.
    Also as for WW2 films "The Adventures of Tartu" "Die before Dawn" "This Happy Breed" "Best Years of our Lives" "In Which We Serve" "Pimpernel Smith" and the John Mills version of "Dunkirk". If you have seen them re-watch; if you haven't, they are my gift to old and not so, lovers of classic, British and American movies.

  21. If you look at an aerial view of the new house today, there's a lot more houses around it. Two of Douglas's sons were in the fairground scene, but I couldn't pick them out. I also didn't see another Douglas- Donna Douglas (Ellie Mae Clampett) was a neighbour.

  23. The architect is played by Kirk Douglas who is the father to film star Michael Douglas who is married to film star Catherine Zeta-Jones – just thought I'd mention it for the younger people who may not know.

  24. 45:00– Kirk Douglas doesn't like to take no for an answer. He's get in trouble these days, and rightly so. I believe he was the actor Natalie Wood accused of rape, but of course it was hushed up. So much for morality in the "good old days' that people like to get nostalgic for on youtube. Including comments here.

  25. It's not always easy to "read" sexual situatons in these old movies… even as late as the Camelot Era… Are we to understand, at Time 45:07, that they actually sleep together for the first time? What say YOU?

  26. Poor Margaret's marriage is essentially over. If only Ken would make love to her! Maybe he also has a li'l friend on the side… maybe someone in trousers…. She thinks she's zoomin' him, but maybe he's zoomin' HER… he obviously has a madonna/whore complex… He can't abide to think of his wife as a sexual being…

  27. Here's my amusing Kim Novak story: In 2006, a bunch of amateur/artisanal perfume makers I know agreed to have a contest. Each member would blend a new original perfume, then they'd ask a celebrity to judge their results for a cash prize. Their working theme was simply "patchouly"– each perfumer would make a blend whose starring olfactive note would be patchouly. They approached Kim Novak, still living in SoCal, to be the judge. When the perfumes were carefully blended, they sent vials of their masterpieces to Ms. Novak. Two weeks later, they received a letter from her, handwritten on her gorgeous creamy stationery: "Dear Perfumery Friends: I sampled all your perfumes. They are not to my liking, and gave me a terrible headache. Even my dogs couldn't stand them. So I buried them in my back yard. Sincerely, Kim" 😆😆😕

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