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Plot
Gloria Wandrous (Elizabeth Taylor) wakes up in the apartment of wealthy executive Weston Liggett (Laurence Harvey) and finds that he has left her $250. Insulted, Gloria, whose dress is torn, takes Liggett's wife Emily's (Dina Merrill) mink coat to cover herself and scrawls "No Sale" in lipstick on the mirror. But she orders her telephone answering service, BUtterfield 8, to put Liggett through if he calls.
Gloria visits a childhood friend, pianist Steve Carpenter (Eddie Fisher), who chastises her for wasting her life on one-night stands but agrees to ask his girlfriend Norma (Susan Oliver) to lend her a dress. Gloria leaves, whereupon Norma tells Steve to choose between her or Gloria.
Liggett takes a train to the countryside where his wife Emily is caring for her mother. A friend, Bingham Smith (Jeffrey Lynn), advises him to end his adulterous relationships and return to Bing's law firm instead of working for the chemical business of Emily's father. Meanwhile, Gloria lies to her mother Annie (Mildred Dunnock), claiming to have spent the night at Norma's.
Liggett returns home. Finding the lipstick and money, he phones Gloria to explain the money was meant for her to buy a new dress, to replace the one that he had torn. While drinking later that night, Liggett advises her to ask a high price for her lovemaking talents. She insists she does not take payment from her dates and claims she has been hired as a model to advertise the dress she is wearing at three bistros that night. Liggett follows Gloria, watching her flirt with dozens of men at several clubs. He then drives her to a run-down motel. After sleeping together, Liggett and Gloria decide to explore their relationship further. Together for five days, they grow closer, falling genuinely in love with one another and parting only upon the return of Liggett's wife.
When Gloria returns home, she confesses to her mother about having been the "slut of all time" but declares that that is all over now since she is truly in love. Gloria visits her psychiatrist Dr. Tredman (George Voskovec) to insist that her relationship with Liggett has cured her of promiscuity.
For his part, Liggett also plan to change his life, taking up Bing's offer of a job at the law firm. When he returns home, Emily has noticed that her mink is gone. Liggett makes excuses and rushes out to search for Gloria at her regular clubs. He is unable to locate her, but in his search he is repeatedly confronted with the reality of Gloria's promiscuous past. When Gloria finds Liggett at a bistro the following evening, he drunkenly launches into insults. Gloria drives Liggett to his apartment building where Emily, spotting them from a window above, watches as her husband throws the coat at Gloria, saying he would never give the tainted object back to his wife.
Gloria goes to Steve, saying that she feels she has "earned" the mink coat she is wearing. Having never before taken payment from the men she slept with, she now has and she laments "what that makes me". She recounts that when she was 13, a friend of her widowed mother repeatedly raped her, and she hates herself because she loved it and thus went on to make her life out of it. Steve insists that Gloria stay the night since both Gloria and he have to decide what to do next. Norma arrives the next morning finds Gloria asleep on Steve's couch; having at last made up his mind, he asks Norma to marry him.
The next day, a now-sober Liggett admits to himself that he still loves Gloria and asks Emily for a divorce. Meanwhile, Gloria tells her mother she is moving to Boston to begin a new life.
Upon discovering Gloria's destination, Liggett drives until he spots her car at a roadside café. He tries to apologize to Gloria by asking her to marry him, but Gloria insists that his insults have "branded" her and that her past is a sore spot that no husband would ever truly be able to accept. Pursuing Gloria's car, Liggett sees her miss a sign for road construction and accidentally hurtle over an embankment to her death.
When he returns to the city, Liggett tells his wife about Gloria's death, announces that he is leaving to "find my pride," and says that if Emily is still home when he returns, they will work on their marriage.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUtterfield_8


Cast
Elizabth Taylor as Gloria Wandrous エリザベス・テイラー
Laurence Harvey as Weston Liggett ローレンス・ハーヴェイ
Eddie Fisher as Steve Carpenter エディ・フィッシャー
Dina Merrill as Emily Liggett ダイナ・メリル
Mildred Dunnock as Mrs. Wandrous ミルドレッド・ダノック
Betty Field as Fanny Thurber ベティ・フィールド
Jeffrey Lynn as Bingham Smith ジェフリー・リン

Academy Awards
Won
Best Actress (Elizabeth Taylor)

Nominated
Best Cinematography, Color

1960年制作のダニエル・マン監督作品「バターフィールド8」です。エリザベス・テイラー、ローレンス・ハーヴェイ、エディ・フィッシャー（スターウォーズでレイア姫を演じたキャリー・フィッシャーの父）らが出演。

エリザベス・テイラー演じるグロリアはコールガール、つまり売春婦なわけです。
そのグロリアが富豪で既婚者のウェストンと恋に落ちるという話です。
ただ映画でスッキリしないのがウェストンはグロリアを愛しているのか、妻を愛しているのかということです。ウェストンがどこまで本気なのかがよくわかりませんでした。

この映画はヒット作とは言えますが、評価が高いとは言えないと思います。
アカデミー賞ノミネートも2部門です。
エリザベス・テイラーもアカデミー主演女優賞を受賞していますが、これまで3度ノミネートされたのに受賞できなかったこと、また病気で倒れたことの同情とも言われています。

でも年々美貌が衰えていったテイラーもこの頃はまだ維持しているので、テイラーの美しさを見るにはいい映画かもしれません。

バターフィールド8 [ (洋画) ] 価格:1,000円 (2017/12/23 10:13時点) 感想(0件)