A Nice Touch story
A woman is caught between her drunken husband and her determined lover. Directed by: Joseph Pevney. Story by: Mann Rubin.
17 total · 2 choice · 7 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| greed for riches | choice | In a dramatic reveal at the end, we learned that Larry's seemingly passionate love affair with Janice had been cold-heartedly calculated to advance his acting career and that he was now married to another woman he had chosen also for that very same purpose. |
| the desire for professional success | choice | Larry's ambition in life, perhaps owing to his destitute childhood, was to become a movie star, and he wasn't above using people to his ends to get there. |
| acting | major | Larry was first an aspiring actor in the flashbacks. In present time he was an actor on the verge of becoming famous, one gathers. He was concerned about Janice and, in particular, her jealous husband showing up to ruin his image and reputation. |
| extramarital affair | major | Janice began an affair with Larry behind her older husband, Ed's, back. |
| husband and wife | major | Janice and Ed Brandt. Larry induced his lover, Janice, to murder her husband, Ed, by saying that she had to choose between him and Larry. |
| infatuation | major | Janice fell head over heels in love with Larry and though, alas falsely, that the sentiment was reciprocated. |
| romantic jealousy | major | Ed was so jealous with rage that he tracked down Janice's whereabouts, drunk off his feet as he was, in order to find her lover and duke it out. |
| spouse murder | major | Larry induced his lover, Janice, to murder her husband by saying that she had to choose between him and Larry. |
| the entertainment industry | major | Janice worked for a casting agency until she got fired for pulling too many strings in order to advance her lover, Larry's, career. In a flashback we saw Larry compete with other candidates in a waiting room to get an audition that Janice administrated. |
| alcohol abuse | minor | Larry, more or less correctly it seems, estimated that Janice's husband was 15 years older than her and a boozer. |