Geronimo1967
I dont suppose there is anything very original about this plot. Very rich, widowed, oil man Jasper (Ian Keith) has two spoilt grown-up children. Kyle (Robert Stack) is a wastrel alcoholic, Marylee (Dorothy Malone) is a lady of, lets say, easy virtue. The son is best friends with the companys geologist Mitch (Rock Hudson) and its these two men who meet the secretary Lucy (Lauren Bacall). Both take an instant shine to her, and after some vulgar displays from Kyle you might have put your cash on her choosing Mitch, but for some pretty inexplicable reason she succumbs to what she perceives is a decent vulnerability underneath the gin and corn-liquor exterior, and agrees to marry him. This ought to be the end of things, but Mitch cant get her ou...