"The hypocrisy, sexual repression, and backwater snobbery here is enough to make Peyton Place look like Vatican City." —Austin Chronicle
A hard-drinking novelist (Frank Sinatra) returns to his small Midwest town after WWII and, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother (Arthur Kennedy), becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler (Dean Martin) and torn between two very different women (Shirley MacLaine and Martha Hyer).
