Strangers When We Meet (1960)
"I LOVE YOU BABY, BUT MY WIFE JUST REFUSES TO UNDERSTAND!"
Director: Richard Quine · Writer: Evan Hunter
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.
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Director
Richard Quine
Cast
Kirk Douglas
Larry Coe 
Kim Novak
Margaret 'Maggie' Gault 
Barbara Rush
Eve Coe 
Ernie Kovacs
Roger Altar 
Walter Matthau
Felix Anders 
Virginia Bruce
Mrs. Wagner 
John Bryant
Ken Gault 
Kent Smith
Stanley Baxter 
Helen Gallagher
Betty Anders 
Roberta Shore
Lindy, the Babysitter 
Nancy Kovack
Marcia 
Sue Ane Langdon
Daphne User Reviews (1)
When successful architect "Larry" (Kirk Douglas) meets bored "Maggie" (Kim Novak) at the school bus stop after dropping off their respective children, you can just tell that things are going to start smouldering! He's married to "Eve" (Barbara Rush) and she to prominent writer "Roger" (Ernie Kovacks) and it's the latter man who has employed the former to design and build a new hilltop home for his family. So far, it's all just a routine family melodrama that, for my money anyway, Douglas brings very little to. Luckily for us, though, we also have the presence of the rather odious neighbour "Felix" (Walter Matthau) who says very little but sees everything. Of course, the grass is always greener and the cheating couple gradually realise that though there is certainly gratification to be had, happiness is a completely different thing. Their secret, shallow, lives have brought them a sort of…
