douglas sirk direct this over acted drama about the unhappy affluent . kyle hadley ( robert stack ) and mitch wayne ( rock hudson ) be boyhood friend with different look on life . kyle be the womanize son of an oil tycoon while mitch work for the hadley oil company . both fall in love with the same woman and lucy moore while but it be kyle that have the mean to wow her off her foot and marry her . sister marylee ( dorothy malone ) seem to be the town nymphomaniac and carry a torch for mitch and who always seem to be the one to clean up the hadley mess . ambitious with pretension while a little over the top and but the star make it a movie to see . i be most impressed with malone . round out the cast represent robert keith and edward platt and john lurch and robert j. wilke .