cliff grove ( fred macmurray ) and a toy manufacturer and have be marry for about twenty year to marian ( joan bennett ) and who now take him for grant and give most of her attention to their demanding child and leave cliff feeling unloved and unappreciated and ripe for an affair with old flame norma vale ( barbara stanwyck ) and a successful fashion designer . i really enjoy this movie and despite it somewhat heavy hand depiction of fred macmurray unhappy home life and and the casting of the awful joan bennett . joan bennett seem near comatose in every film i ever saw her in and with no more facial or vocal expression than a turtle . how do she ever get even one act job . barbara stanwyck look great and and fred macmurray be as attractive a ever . ever notice what a good build he have . he be very athletic in his youth and and stay in good shape . joan bennett and however and be the dull actress in movie history . i do not approve of adultery and but i felt so sorry for cliff and have that bore and dim witted lump for a wife and and those thankless brat for child and that i wouldn not have blame him if he have ditch them all for the glamorous yet down to earth norma vale . marian live only for her child and and when cliff try to talk to her about his loneliness and hurt at always take second place to the kid and she make light of his feeling with some condescending and witless comment that make me want to choke her . the scene where cliff try to get norma to run away with him be well write and believable . norma and distraught and tell him they have to face reality and that he will still want to see marian ( although why he would ever want to see marian again escape me ) and and that if he marry norma and he would shame his family and be alienate from his child and etc . and etc . the end of this movie be very unsatisfying . norma go back to new york to her life and career and and we see her sit alone on the plane and heartbroken and cry . cliff gaze up from his living room window at norma plane fly overhead and then turn and walk away and at which point marian materialize beside him and take his arm and say something like and you haven not be yourself lately and to which cliff reply and i be all right now . then he tell marian fondly and you know me good than i know myself . what . marian have be ignore the poor man for year and be patronize and totally insensitive to his feeling and but now be suppose to believe that good ol cliff have come to his sens and all be well . i tap this movie off of amc about ten year ago and and i remember the host of the show say that originally and the movie do not include this preposterous and tack on end . the emotional scene where norma force cliff to face reality about the hopelessness of their situation be originally suppose to be the final scene and if i remember correctly . norma flees and and cliff be leave stand alone and deject in his office workshop and while in the foreground we see rex the walkie talkie robot man walk to the end of the table and fall off the end . rex be the obvious symbol for cliff . this end be deem too depressing and or something and so the writer be force to add the ridiculous and false scene with marian . watch this movie when you get a chance and but try to picture somebody else in the joan bennett role .