Beloved Infidel (1959) (2024)

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• Review by Anna ★★★★ 1

  gregory peck when in the hell will you smack my ass???

• Review by marina 🌙✨ ★★★

  i debated whether to rate it 2.5 or 3 stars, and you know what? the pretty colors and hot actors warrant a 3-star rating. deborah kerr was superb as usual. her screaming "i didn't drag myself up from the gutter to waste myself on a worthless drunk like you!!"...... mmmm. music to my ears.

• Review by Wes Edwards ★★ 2

  Gregory Peck played a writer in drunken dissolution in The Snows of Kilimanjaro in 1952. He should have known better this time. Peck as a past-his-prime F. Scott Fitzgerald is as good as it sounds. He was just not a falling-apart sort of actor.

  He fares better than Deborah Kerr, though. She gives an elocution lesson more than a performance as Sheilah Graham, the newspaper columnist who had an affair with Fitzgerald late in his life. Beloved Infidel is based on Graham's memoir, though her character is as distant and shallow at the end of the movie as she is at the beginning.

  The miscasting of the leads is an insurmountable problem. The movie is handsome but lifeless.

  
  Not recommended, even for Fitzgerald fans.

• Review by J ★★★★

  Deborah Kerr wore 29 outfits in this film

• Review by Miguel Marías

  Una complicidad implícita: Henry King y Gregory Peck

  Aunque según pasan los años aumentan las cosas de las que no estoy seguro, si de algo tengo cada día menos dudas –y me quedaban pocas hace ya mucho– es de que, entre todos los cineastas americanos que empezaron a dirigir en los años 10 del pasado siglo, fue el peor conocido y menos apreciado de todos ellos, Henry King, no sólo uno de los mejores –y con los de esta generación estamos hablando, sin exageración alguna, no tanto de los fundadores o pioneros como de los más grandes directores–, sino quizá –y eso que, por lo general, solían ser modestos y sobrios en sus manifestaciones– el que mejor supo defender su…

• Review by anna🌙 ★★½

  deborah kerr in a swimsuit is my religion

• Review by Vanina ★★½ 9

  If I ever sign up for an internet dating profile again, I will list "Gregory Peck" as my sexual orientation. My goodness.

  And, my goodness, this film is terrible. Apparently, Peck didn't rate his performance much either, and he's painfully right about that, but then he's given nothing to work with, although the photography is quite nice.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the greatest authors of all-time, and yet he's portrayed here as either a bland romantic ideal of a puppy dog (first hour), or a raging drunk (second hour). I'm afraid the latter is more accurate for Fitzgrald in the 1930s, and I just find it difficult to imagine Fitzgerald to be the type of guy to give…

• Review by Sara Clements ★★

  Tell me Mr. Peck, how did a man as handsome as you are, ever get to be the biggest witch in Hollywood? And that word is spelled with a capital B!

• Review by lacci ★★★★ 1

  i can overlook some technical issues and the melodrama because gregory peck and deborah kerr’s performances are so good.

• Review by Alex Franqueira ★★★★

  gregory peck, you’re so sexy you could read me a phone book and i would listen intently.

• Review by Diogo Serafim ★★★½

  A matter of character and space. King films everything in very wide, large compositions, and the emphasis lies frequently within these tableaux, on the actors' small gestures and physical presences, rather than with a heavy use of découpage and montage. It's something that gives the film a very pure form, a classical aura, a melodrama where the harshness contrasts with how much air each image is given and how the film manages to breathe despite the turbulence inside it. Beautiful art design, so attuned to costumes and decoration and a wonderfully bright palette of colors alongside an actual dramaturgical conscience and a fluid mise-en-scène.

• Review by Lindsay Wilson ★★★★ 1

  The three stages of Beloved Infidel by Sara:
  1 “I love two straights”
  2 “I no longer love two straights”
  3 “The straights let me down”