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Toys in the Attic (1963) | User Rating
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Running Time
1 hour, 30 minutes
Country USA
Studio United Artists
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Other Titles
• Toys in the Attic
• Puppen unterm Dach (1963)
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Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Suspense, Revenge, Marriage
Plot: An adaptation of Lillian Hellman's once controversial play, TOYS IN THE ATTIC stars Dean Martin as businessman manqué Julien Berniers. When he returns to his family home in New Orleans with innocent young wife Lily (Yvette Mimieux), his overly solicitous older sisters, Anna (Wendy Hiller) and Carrie (Geraldine Page), hope that he'll be able to lift them out of the genteel poverty in which they abide. Although he's had to fold his Chicago shoe business, Julien radiates affluence, lavishing expensive gifts on everyone in sight. Anna is skeptical about the source of her brother's wealth, and even Carrie, whose feelings for Julien are much more than filial, is doubtful. When Lily's wealthy mother, Albertine (Gene Tierney), comes to visit, accompanied by her chauffer-lover Henry (Charles Lampkin), Lily and Carrie overhear them mention that Julien and former lover Charlotte Warkins (Nan Martin) had swindled Charlotte's husband, Cyrus (Larry Gates), in a land deal. The consequences of this revelation will change the lives of all of the film's characters. George Roy Hill's one foray into the landscape of Southern Gothic was hampered by the muting of the play's themes of homosexuality and incest. Page and Hiller, however, are brilliant in their roles.
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| Directed by |
George Roy Hill
The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The World According to Garp |
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| Written by |
| James Poe
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Around the World in Eighty Days, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
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| Cast |
Dean Martin
Rio Bravo, The Cannonball Run, Ocean's Eleven |
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 | Gene Tierney
Laura, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Heaven Can Wait |
 | Nan Martin
Cast Away, Shallow Hal, A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors |
 | | Wendy Hiller
The Elephant Man, A Man for All Seasons, Murder on the Orient Express | Larry Gates
In the Heat of the Night, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | |
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| Music By |
George Duning
From Here to Eternity, Picnic, Bell Book and Candle |
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