FROM THE TERRACE (1960) Sixties soap at its slickest

Philadelphia, 1946. Navy pilot Alfred Eden returns from war, tires of fighting with his disapproving father, and enters into a marriage that turns into one long battle. A chance encounter with a Wall Street tycoon catapaults him into a high-stakes career in high finance – talk about war! But between the corporate corruption he's forced into and his wife’s cheating, Alfred walks out of the rat race and into the arms of a business acquaintence's daughter, with whom he starts a better life. Sound like a melodrama? You bet! But FROM THE TERRACE is as good as melodrama gets, with young Paul Newman and his real-wife Joanne Woodward, he at his cockiest and she at her sassiest.