Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOLIERS*** The beautiful Gina Lollobrigida as Guillietta, or Julie for short, Cameron is stripped down to her bear bar and panties. That as her shady past is revealed as a high price call-girl at her boyfriend Nick Stratton's, Anthony Franciosa, dad's big time Chicago construction mogul Pete Stratton, Ernest Borgnine, 30th wedding anniversary party. Rick who was to announce his engagement to Julie is dumbstruck by this shocking revelation that's even more shocking to him and his mom Pete's long suffering wife Yvonne, Luana Patten, is that Pete was one of her best customers! Running for her life out of the party before she got lynched by the outraged party goers Julie ends up in a sleazy downtown hotel where her lover, who by then got over the shock, Rick finds her. It's then after Pete was made to drop the charges, in her being a hooker, against Julie by his tearful son Rick that the two lovebirds decided to check out to Mexico and, by getting away from it all, blend into the woodwork. Pete soon realizing that there's no way he can break up the romance between Rick & Julie drops into their hotel in Acapulco unannounced and gives Julie his blessing to marry Rick and be accepted into the Stratton family. But by then the damage was already done with a guilt ridden Julie in knowing all the trouble she caused dropping her idea to marry Rick and going back to her call-girl days. Julie ends up making a complete fool of herself at a local bar by getting gloriously drunk and trying to pick every man there!****SPOILERS*** It's when Rick sees that Julie has gone completely loco, mad, he decides the best thing to do is go back home to Chicago and start a new life working for his father's construction company. The tragic ending has Rick change his mind and decide to take Julie back no matter how crazy she is but by then it's too late. Julie in the end ended it all by taking a swan dive off an 80 foot cliff in the Gulf of Mexico. But as we see as the movie ends the heart-broken Rick is more then forgiving to her for what she did to him as well as the Stratton family.

FANatic-10 In this lurid early 60's melodrama, Gina Lollobrigida plays a high-class call girl who meets Anthony Franciosca, the son of millionaire construction magnate Ernest Borgnine, a self-made Greek immigrant whose forceful personality and wealth dominates everyone around him. Franciosca has just gotten out of the service and is "finding himself". Franciosca is at first ignorant of Lollobrigida's calling in life, but soon gets wise and also learns that his father and seemingly half the male population in town has used her services.This is a fairly big budget, lushly made film, set in what looked like possibly San Francisco (?) with a side trip to Acapulco. I'm kind of a sucker for films from this era, their look and style, so it was enjoyable enough though certainly nothing great. Borgnine gives the best performance, though even his character showed a lot of inconsistency - at times, he was quite likable then you wanted to beat him over the head. Gina is voluptuous and sexy, but Franciosca, playing the weakest character, could not overcome the deficiencies of the writing. The biggest problem with the film is the inherent double standard of the time, making the sexually free woman the victim who must pay for her "sins". I'm certainly happy that things have changed in that regard.

Sheila_Beers I liked this film, which struck me as "Camille" in a modern setting with beautiful scenery and wardrobe in color and expressive music in the soundtrack.The main similarity with "Camille" is the theme of "Redemption and Forgiveness" or the lack thereof with tragic results. Like Armand Duval in "Camille," the young man (portrayed by Anthony Franciosa) idealizes the exquisite young woman with whom he has fallen in love. To him, she is beautiful and innocent, and he wants a future with her. Then his father (Ernest Borgnine) reveals the ugly truth, that Giulietta is a high-priced call girl and that he and his middle-aged friends have been her clients.The young man is confused, but he wants to forgive Giulietta for her past and help her make a new start by marrying her. They go away on holiday, but former clients (who are self righteous and who have an unforgiving attitude) come out of the woodwork and refuse to let Giulietta forget her past. As in Camille, the end is tragic, leaving the male characters to consider the parts (good or bad) they played in Giulietta's life.

loza-1 The only thing I have against this film is that the character played by tony Franciosa is rather helpless for someone who has just spent several years in the army. I would have thought that he would have come out a better man, instead of this mousy character, but there you are.I thought the scene at the top of the skyscraper being built, where Tony Franciosa walks along a girder as though it were a tightrope, to get some money from his father was an incredible piece of acting by Franciosa, Borgnine, and the actors playing the spidermen. To me that was the outstanding scene in the whole film.The rest of the film is a watchable melodrama, although I don't think it will ever be regarded as one of the best films ever made.