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06 March 2007
Of Human Bondage
I initially saw this movie when I was a teenager just out of high school in 1965. I thought Laurence Harvey was a serious, sweet, lonely, intense, and passionate young man who fell in love with a giggling voluptuous streetwalker played by a young and beautifully-seductive Kim Novak. I have seen the original version with Bette Davis and Leslie Howard, which I also liked. But I prefer the version with Novak and Harvey because they didn't seem to be acting---they actually seemed to be the ill-fated lovers that they were cast as. Novak was a sexy prostitute who waited tables in a restaurant where the medical student Harvey would go to have tea and sketch Kim's portrait. I could watch this movie again and again. The scene with Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey in bed with the sheets draped over Kim, is the sexiest scene that has ever been filmed. Although there was no nudity in the film, you can feel the intensity of Laurence Harvey's hunger for Kim's voluptuous body.