1959 · drama · romance · wartime
That Kind of Woman
Directed by Sidney Lumet1h 32m1959
A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
Our read: That Kind of Woman (1959) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · romance · wartime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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