The Chapman Report

The Chapman Report (1962)

Genres - Drama, Romance  |   Sub-Genres - Ensemble Film, Psychological Drama  |   Release Date - Oct 5, 1962 (USA - Unknown), Oct 5, 1962 (USA)  |   Run Time - 125 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Paul Brenner

George Cukor directed this sanitized version of Irving Wallace's tawdry best-seller concerning a survey of the sexual habits of American women. Psychologist George C. Chapman (Andrew Duggan) arrives in a Los Angeles suburb with his assistant Paul Radford (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) in tow. They are looking for volunteers for their sex survey, and four women raise their hands: Sarah Garnell (Shelley Winters) is a middle-aged woman who is having an affair with young theater director Fred Linden (Ray Danton); Teresa Harnish (Glynis Johns) is a happily married woman who becomes attracted to brawny football player Ed Kraski (Ty Hardin); Naomi Shields (Claire Bloom) is an alcoholic nymphomaniac who takes up with an unsavory jazz musician; and Kathleen Barclay (Jane Fonda) is a young widow who thinks she is frigid -- that is, until Radford makes her his personal project.

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alcoholism, community, extramarital-affair, frigidity, intellectual, interview, nymphomaniac, philandering, psychology, sex, sexual-deviation, statistics, suburbs, survey, woman