Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

carol-sparks Did anyone else think that that Susan Heyward was a little old to play this part, having babies, etc? Aren't she and Bette Davis close in age? I will say that Bette Davis has never looked better. She always had those beautiful eyes but she made an awesome silver haired fox in this movie. And how handsome the man playing the "husband" role. I've always liked that actor (name escapes me) but didn't realize what a wicked handsome man he was in those days! I love the female players and love watching these classic movies, no matter how camp. But the selection of "Mother/daughter" struck me as odd.I gravitate to the movies with these two actors. Strong women both. And I loved the fireworks in the movie.

Bolesroor When I was a kid in the 80's, every woman came to the beach equipped with three things: sunglasses, sun tan lotion, and a trashy paperback novel as big as my head. "Where Love Has Gone" reminds me of one of those novels: melodramatic, convoluted, and somewhat absurd.This is not to say it's a bad movie, but it's definitely a guilty pleasure, an acquired taste... The people most likely to watch this film today are fans of Bette Davis, fans of Susan Hayward, and Star Trek fans enjoying the appearance DeForest "Bones" Kelly before he was stationed on the Enterprise. I fit into all three categories and still I must admit I was less than impressed with the film, which tells the tale of a domineering society mother who creates and destroys her daughter's marriage for the "good of the family name." The acting is over-the-top, the dialogue is stilted, and the story is about as cheesy as they come. The movie's finale- a shocking courtroom confessional- bears little resemblance to anything that has ever happened here on Earth.But maybe that's the charm of this movie… maybe it wasn't made for the time capsule or for intense critical examination. Maybe it was only made to pass an afternoon in 1964, and maybe that's enough. Just like those paperbacks: It may not be the greatest novel ever written, but you have to admit it's great to be at the beach.GRADE: C-

vincentlynch-moonoi If evaluating a film were a question of a scales with the positives on one side, and the negatives on the other, on the positive sides of the scales you'd have the acting abilities of Susan Hayward and Bette Davis. On the negative side you'd have a potboiler of a script and the performance of the leading man -- Mike Connors, and the teen-aged Joey Heatherton. I was not familiar with this film, and within just a few minutes I thought how much the story reminded me of the true story of Lana Turner's daughter killing her mother's lover...then, after watching the film and reading about, I found out most people at the time assumed the same thing. There are a handful of actors -- Jack Nicholson is another example -- who I can watch and enjoy even in a lousy movie, just because I know their performances are going to be so interesting. Bette Davis and Susan Hayward have always been in that group, for me. So, I suffered through this film, just for the joy of their acting. In their confrontational scenes together, they sizzle! And can't you imagine Davis and Hayward being mother and daughter?

sol1218 (Some Spoilers) Old money and high society sleaze make "Where Love Has Gone" one of the best of it's kind in how the other side lives loves and cheats on each other. War hero and USAAF fighter ace Major Luke Miller, Mike Conners, gets caught up with a world that even the trials and tribulations of the Second World didn't properly prepare him for.In Phoenix Arizona discussing an upcoming project for the city Luke gets a call from San Francisco for him to fly right over in that there's trouble brewing for his fifteen year old daughter Daniell, or Dani, played by Joey Heatherton the real life daughter of TV's popular "Merry Mailman". It turns out that Dani was involved in a free for all between her mother Valerie Hayden Miller, Susan Hayward, and her mothers lover Richard Lazich. During the wild and hysterical slug-fest Dani ran through Richard with a knife killing him.We soon realize that both Luke and Valerie have been divorced and it's their separation that caused Dani to drift into very wild and dangerous company that has caused her to lose control of both her emotions and actions. Valerie who had a strict upbringing by her mother Mrs. Gerald Hayden, Bette Davis, had let her daughter Dani grow up wild and free. This caused Dani to lead a life of wild sex as well as partying with much older men losing her virginity before she was 15 years old! We get a long flashback of how Luke met Valerie, a world famous artist and sculptor, during WWII and how her mother Mrs. Hayden practically forced Valerie, even though she was in love with him in the first place, to marry Luke. Mrs. Hayden was the epitome of a nosy and intrusive mother-in-law making Luke's life a living hell controlling both him and his means of making an honest living. Mr. Haydens actions kept Luke from his love of building buildings for the state by having him blackballed out of the real-estate and architecture business.Forcing a helpless and unemployed Luke to work for her building company Mrs. Hayden had the once proud and independent Luke Miller broken down to nothing more then an leach and moocher where he had to live off both his wife's and mother-in-laws money in order for him to survive. All this didn't help young Dani who growing up had no father to look up to with her dad Luke turning to the bottle for comfort and at the same time help make him forget what a failure he really was.As we get back into the present, 1964, we see that Dani who's charged as a juvenile in Richard Lazichs death knows a lot more then she, and her mother, are willing to let out. It's the last ten or so minutes of the movie at Dani's trial that the awful and devastating truth comes out of what really happened that evening when Richard Lazich was stabbed to death. This shocking revelation that was so x-rated back then, we weren't even given the benefit to see it in a flashback, that it completely blew away Valerie as well as her mother Mrs. Hayden. This all lead ***SPOILER ALERT** the poor and emotionally destroyed Valerie Hayden Miller to rush back to her studio and do herself in the very same way her lover Richard Lazich was.Too shocking and outrageous to mention even now some 40 years after it's release the movie "Where Love Has Gone" indescribable ending will leave you, like every one in it, sputtering with disbelief. In that something as shocking like that, the goings on between Valerie Dani and Richard Lazich, was even considered to be put into a film, as sleazy as it was, way back then. The movie is actually based on the Lana Turner Johnny Stomponato affair back in April 1958 where Lana's 14 year old daughter Cheryl was convicted in Stomponato's, a notorious Los Angelas gangster, justifiable killing. In the movie "Where Love Has Gone" the final few minutes totally outdoes and eclipses whatever happened in real life between Lana Johnny and Cheryl by a wide country mile!