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Hot Spell [VHS]

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This movie, if you can get your hands on it, is the perfect classic with a fine cast. Look at your cast--Anthony Quinn, Shirley Booth and Shirley MacClain in a tragic tale of the most common of all love situations. THE OTHER WOMAN and the destruction of family with all the twists and turns that go along with it!! It is a great oldie - must see.

I have a tape of this film that I haven't seen in about 8 years. Therefore, plot details have escaped me. But, in short, it's a rather sad tale of a small, small-town family whose patriarch, played by Anthony Quinn, has a mid-life crisis and philanders about while his sad, lonely wife, played with typical sensitivity and pity by Shirley Booth, sits at home, overlooking his transgressions. I remember enjoying the whole film, including Shirley MacLaine's turn as their daughter. However, one scene which stands out takes place between Eileen Eckhart and Shirley Booth. It's in the middle of the afternoon, and Eckhart teaches Booth how to drink in, I believe, Booth's kitchen. It is quietly HYSTERICAL, and proves how wonderful Eckhart was as an actress. This scene could have gone on another five minutes, it was just so entertaining.

This could've been a simple "Woe is Me" type film, but Shirley Booth brings it to another level.

Shirley Booth stars as Alma Duval, a woman who is cheat on, not only by her husband, but life in general.

What makes this a classic is Booth's performance. At the film's start Booth makes you truly feel for Alma. You can really sympathize with her plight but by the time the movie ends, Alma's self pitying and self-loathing almost makes you feel she got what she deserved.

Only Booth could pull that off. Makig you feels such sorry for the character then turning it all around by the end of the film. I wish this would come out on DVD

I thought the woman who played anthony quinn's wife was Shirley Booth not shirley maclaine. I do hope I ordered the correct movie. I remember watching this movie with my mom and sister on a sat. evening on the Fabulous 52's. I have never forgotten this movie.