Taglines: “I love you baby, but my wife just refuses to understand!
Strangers When We Meet movie storyline. The awarded architect Larry Coe lives a boring marriage with his wife Eve Coe and their two young sons in the suburb. Larry is designing and constructing an unique house to the successful writer Roger Altar (Ernie Kovacs) on the top of a hill. Margaret ‘Maggie’ Gault is a sexy blond sexually neglected by her husband Ken Gault that lives in the same neighborhood and they have a young son.
When Larry meets Maggie at the bus stop of the school bus, he unsuccessfully hits on her. But soon they encounter each other again and they have a love affair. They fall in love with each other, but when their despicable neighbor Felix Anders discovers their affair, they have to decide between loyalty and respect to their families or love.
Strangers When We Meet is a 1960 drama film about two married neighbors who have an affair. The movie was adapted by Evan Hunter from his novel of the same name and directed by Richard Quine. The film stars Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, and Walter Matthau. The picture was filmed in Los Angeles, with scenes shot in Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Bel Air, Santa Monica, and Malibu.
Art director Ross Bellah elected to have a real house built for the one Larry Coe is designing for Roger Altar in the film. Bellah, with architect Carl Anderson, designed an all-wood 3,800-square-foot house and had it built on a hillside lot in Bel Air. The filming schedule had to be closely aligned with the house’s construction schedule because the house was an important element of the plot, and scenes had to be filmed at various stages of construction. The house still stands today.
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Directed by: Richard Quine
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Helen Gallagher, Virginia Bruce, John Bryant, Roberta Shore, Nancy Kovack, Carol Douglas
Screenplay by: Evan Hunter
Cinematography by: Charles Lang
Film Editing by: Charles Nelson
Costume Design by: Jean Louis
Set Decoration by: Louis Diage
Art Direction by: Ross Bellah
Music by: George Duning
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: June 29, 1960
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