Strangers When We Meet

Sexual misconduct in white-collar suburbia is the topic of this routine melodrama involving two neighboring couples. Architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas), unhappy with his wife Eve's (Barbara Rush) fixation on their bank balance, starts taking an interest in Maggie Gault (Kim Novak), whose husband has ...more

Strangers When We Meet is a fairly routine "domestic melodrama," but it does have a number of interesting aspects. Chief among these is its cast, which is rather top-loaded with talent. Indeed, one wants to ask what Kirk Douglas -- more recently seen in the likes of Spartacus and Last Train From Gun Hill -- is doing in this little soaper. Douglas is very good, mind you, but he seems a little out of place; the audience keeps waiting for him to be given a really great scene to sink his teeth into. ...more