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- A pas-de-deux of lonely suburban souls, Strangers When We Meet pairs a successful, married architect (Kirk Douglas) with an attractive married neighbor (Kim Novak), both misunderstood by their spouses. They begin a furtive affair, around which discussions of fulfillment, forgiveness, authenticity and desire grow like tendrils.
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Plot. Larry Coe is a Los Angeles architect who is married with two kids. He has a very bright wife, Eve. She is ambitious for him, but he wants to do work more imaginative than the commercial buildings he has been designing.
Maggie Gault (Kim Novak), one of his neighbors whose son is friends with his son, helps him get a commission to build a house for an eccentric writer named Roger Alter (Ernie Kovacs, for comic relief). Both Larry and Maggie are dissatisfied in their marriages.
Strangers When We Meet. Architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas) yearns to create adventurous designs, but his pragmatic wife, Eve (Barbara Rush), is determined to make her husband focus on more ...
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Directed by Richard Quine and adapted by Evan Hunter from his own 1958 novel, Strangers When We Meet can be seen as a venture to smash the all-too-strict Hollywood production code, which had already begun to show some serious cracks. The film is led by a stellar performance from Kirk Douglas as Larry Coe, a Californian married architect who ...
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Jun 4, 2020 · In the summer of 1960, Columbia Pictures released the film Strangers When We Meet. Adapted by Evan Hunter from his novel by the same name, the film’s plot centers around Larry Coe, an architect (played by Kirk Douglas) who is building a home for a Hollywood writer (played by Ernie Kovacs).
With Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush. A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Strangers When We Meet (1960) A pas-de-deux of lonely suburban souls, Strangers When We Meet pairs a successful, married architect (Kirk Douglas) with an attractive married neighbor (Kim Novak), both misunderstood by their spouses.
