ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Panamint Beautiful photography and wonderful atmospherics of early 60's Mexico as it was back then. It was a good era to visit Mexico as I remember, having been there for the first time in 1961 (yes I'm old). Merle Oberon looks beautiful and displays real star power. Steve Cochran strolls through the film portraying an engineer stuck in Mexico, loafing around waiting for equipment to arrive. Cochran is well cast since he was apparently a world-class loafer at times in his life. He would die amid mystery and sleaze a mere 2 years after the film's release, his rotting and putrid corpse found on a derelict boat in the Pacific Ocean, accompanied by two surviving female "attendants".Oberon's acting is good, but the role makes you wonder why anyone would care about the affairs of silly, spoiled rich woman "Katherine", her character in this film. Katherine, you need to see a shrink.Featuring good scenery and atmospherics vs. a shallow plot that drags especially toward the ending, this film will probably entertain Merle Oberon's fans. Other viewers must choose whether they have the time to invest watching this to experience Ms. Oberon's undeniable star power, or just skip it.

edwagreen Sordid affair with older woman Merle Oberon and Steve Cochran as the two lovers. It takes most of the picture to finally realize who the real culprit is here as the topic of an incestuous relationship is finally inferred.Oberon plays an emotionally unbalanced woman who meets Cochran when he comes to Mexico on an engineering job for her brother-Curt Jurgens,who steals the scenes that he is in. He portrays her half-brother who took her from England after her mother died.Oberon, in the movie, goes from affair to affair without being able to make any final commitment to anyone. It is only after an attempted suicide by her, we discover what her brother has been up to.

arsportsltd Merle Oberon was a great beauty often tabbed the 8th wonder of the World so striking was La Oberon in person and on film. In a career that started in London in the 30's Oberon worked with Laughton, Wayler, Hopkins, Brando, Olivier in a long and great career. A good actress her lavish lifestyle got more attention than her ability as an actress.Of Love And Desire is a vanity production produced by Oberon's then fabulously wealthy Mexican husband Bruno Paglai, and many of the settings are in the various Mexican homes ( palaces really) that the Paglai's owned in Mexico. A sight to behold is then 53 year old Merle Oberon in a bikini in a scene with an equally daring Steve Cochran also in a bikini who despite the fact that Mr. Paglai was financing this film was said to be Merle's off camera lover as well. No horror roles for Merle like her peers Joan Crawford, and Bette Davis and Ann Sothern, no way! It was glamor all the way with Merle Oberon looking fantastic in this film.

jotix100 Darkly handsome Steve Corey arrives in Mexico piloting his own plane. He has come to work with Paul Beckmann, a rich industrialist, in his mining concern. Before he can say "Buenos dias" he is whisked to the luxury mansion where he is going to be a guest. Katherine Beckmann, the half sister of Paul, catches his eye. She is an elegant woman with a past. She falls for Steve good looks right away and the inevitable happens that same night, as she guides him through the secret garden to her own play house, discreetly located around the corner from the big mansion.Thus begins this soap opera with tinges of high camp, which might not have been planned, but watching it today, looks a perfect film to show at a small party with friends. It could be priceless fun.Richard Rush is credited as the director of this film that was a vehicle for Merle Oberon, a gorgeous actress that had done much better in her career. Ms. Oberon, who loved Acapulco, might have influenced to have most of the film shot on location. Steve Cochran who used to be seen in the bad guy roles, is playing against type in here. Nothing makes sense in the film that feels like a travelogue. Enjoy the old feeling of Mexico in color.