Two Weeks in Another Town
Two Weeks in Another Town is a 1962 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Kirk Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. The supporting players include Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor, Daliah Lavi, George Hamilton, and Rosanna Schiaffino. The film was based on a 1960 novel by Irwin Shaw and depicts the shooting of a romantic costume drama in Rome by a team of decadent Hollywood stars during the Hollywood on the Tiber era. The picture contains several references to The Bad and the Beautiful, a previous successful MGM movie directed by Minnelli and produced by John Houseman a decade earlier, also with a screenplay by Charles Schnee, music by David Raksin, and starring Kirk Douglas as the lead character.
Plot
Once an established movie star, Jack Andrus has hit rock bottom. An alcoholic, he has been divorced by wife Carlotta, barely survived a car crash, and spent three years in a sanitarium recovering from a nervous breakdown.
Cast
- Alberto Morin
- Bess Flowers
- Beulah Quo
- Charles Horvath
- Claire Trevor
- Cyd Charisse
- Daliah Lavi
- Edit Angold
- Edward Colmans
- Edward G. Robinson
- Eugene Jackson
- Franco Corsaro
- George Hamilton
- George Macready
- James Gregory
- Joanna Roos
- Kirk Douglas
- Lana Turner
- Leslie Uggams
- Lilyan Chauvin
- Louis Calhern
- Mino Doro
- Rosanna Schiaffino
- Stefan Schnabel
- Tony Randall
- Tony Regan
- Vito Scotti
More details
| author | Charles Schnee |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Rome |
| director | Vincente Minnelli |
| editor | Adrienne Fazan |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | attack car crash cinecittà cinecittà studio divorce dub film director heart attack kill movie star nervous breakdown return home rock bottom |
| musicBy | David Raksin |
| producer | John Houseman |
| productionCompany | John Houseman Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | filmmaking |