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The Young Philadelphians

1959, Movie, NR, 136 mins

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A genuine 1950s soap-opera melodrama set among the upper-crust of Philadelphia society, this Warner Brothers film comes complete with infidelities, suicides, seductions, ambition, and plenty of skeletons in closets. Newman once again portrays a wholly confident, ambitious, and seductive young man, and his performance saves an otherwise average sudser. The film opens with a prolog set in 1924, in which Brewster, a pretty and ambitious girl from the wrong side of the tracks, j... read more leave a comment
Year: 1959
Rated NR

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Cast
Paul Newman: Tony Lawrence
Barbara Rush: Joan Dickinson
Alexis Smith: Carol Wharton
Brian Keith: Mike Flannagan
Diane Brewster: Kate Judson
Billie Burke: Mrs. J.A. Allen

 

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