BUtterfield 8 (1960) - Theatrical Trailer - © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

Film: BUtterfield 8. Starring: Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. Directed by: Daniel Mann. Story & play written by: John O'Hara "BUtterfield 8" (novel) Screenplay written by: John Michael Hayes and Charles Schnee. Distributed by: © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Theatrical Release Date: November 4, 1960 (USA) Niceties by: http://www.youtube.com/IAmOnlyLove Synopsis! "BUtterfield 8" is a 1960 MGM film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. The screenplay was adapted by John Michael Hayes and Charles Schnee from the 1935 novel by John O'Hara, but the plot of the film bears only a superficial resemblance to the plot of the novel. O'Hara based parts of the novel on the mysterious death of Starr Faithfull in Long Beach, Nassau County, New York in 1931. Faithfull's body was found dead on Long Beach's beach, apparently from drowning. In the novel the heroine is killed by falling (apparently having been pushed) under a paddlewheel of a steamboat on which she is a passenger. Also part of the background of Faithfull's life (her relationship with her mother's cousin Mayor Andrew James Peters of Boston) is used in a similar fictional relationship between the heroine and a friend of her uncle's and a school principal from new England. Plot! Unlike the plot of the novel in which the protagonist is a young woman of the upper classes with too much time, too much money, and a careless disregard for morals, the movie casts Elizabeth Taylor as Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model who falls in love with Weston Liggett (Laurence Harvey), the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money. Their tumultuous relationship then engulfs their loved ones and ends in tragedy for Gloria but hints at redemption for Weston.