No Down Payment

No Down Payment (1957)

The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard-working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.

Erscheinungsdatum
1957-10-30
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (20)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 45 Min.
Genres
Drama
Regie
Martin Ritt

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

No Down Payment is a 1957 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt. It was written by Philip Yordan, who fronted for an uncredited and blacklisted Ben Maddow, and is based on the novel of the same name by John McPartland. The film stars Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter, Cameron Mitchell, Patricia Owens, Barbara Rush, and Pat Hingle.

Production

Writer Philip Yordan said both the film and the novel on which it was based was his idea. He said he read an article in Life magazine "about the building of these new subdivisions where there are no alleys, no separation, no neighborhood, no community.

Yordan sold the film rights to Fox and wrote the script. He said he wrote "a sex picture with the economics in there" but Martin Ritt "didn’t like all of the sex stuff in it. He was only interested in the economics." This meant Yordan "had to cut out all but just a little sex." According to Walter Bernstein, "No one knew that the script, attributed to Philip Yordan, had actually been written by Ben Maddow. Even Marty did not know."

Robert Stack was offered the part of Troy Boone but turned it down because he disliked the character.

Filming started April 1957. McPartland died in September 1958.

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