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 philandering with an old beau, 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 loveliest and sassiest.