This emotionally painful film to watch directed exceptionally well by Alexander Singer is more or less lost today, and that is a pity. It was made at the beginning of the 1960's and I do not feel it has dated. Lola Albright is a revelation as a burlesque stripper who falls in love with a much younger man played with equal force by Scott Marlowe. I do not want to give away spoilers only to say that the stark black and white works well set against the emotional complexity of the film's scenario, and the use of close ups draws the viewer in with the same expertise as Ingmar Bergman. I think it deserves a revival of interest, and is in my opinion not that erotic but an analysis of a possibly impossible love affair. There is a scene towards the end when the two lovers face each other and fight each other which proved to me how good the two leading actors were. A deserved 9.