Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent, a Must See

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

. . . deals with one of the most dreaded afflictions of the previous century, Hereditary Nymphomania. "You're not a woman--you're a disease!" Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Luke is forced to yell at his tart Rich Wife Valerie, who's indiscriminately Open Nightly. As Val takes on all comers in front of her impressionable young daughter Danny, the pivotal Bruce Dern-style scene from director Alfred Hitchcock's MARNIE is repeated. However, WHERE LOVE HAS GONE is far more explicit that Hitch's pulled punch, and also dispenses with the subsequent Reign of Boredom featuring red-tinted camera lenses. LOVE makes it clear that most if not all American men would stand in a line stretching around the block to have a go at Susan Hayward's Valerie, while MARNIE's Tippi Hedren would be lucky to attract ANY Yank to join Britain's Weird Al on his casting couch.As the spawn of Corrupt Capitalist Plutocrat Bette Davis, Valerie's morals are as Deplorable as Iwanna Rump's. With Val's daughter Danny given over to Demonic Debauchery by Age 15, LOVE proves the necessity for a U.S. Constitutional Convention to REPEAL AND REPLACE that Rancid Racist 1700s Suicide Pact currently terrorizing all of us. This will allow the Red Commie KGB-controlled Rich People Party to be permanently outlawed and eradicated, just as Germany's Fourth Reich booted out the Nazis after World War Two. Lucifer's interchangeable Three C's--Communism, Capitalism, and Conservatism--will be banned in our New Constitution, as well as all Job-Killing Corporations (the Devil's Tools). Folks like Mrs. Hayden, Valerie, and Danny no longer will be allowed to corrupt or slay True Blue Loyal Patriotic Normal Union Label American Heroes such as Luke. If these Fat Cat One Per Centers fail to Self-Deport (taking a maximum of $16,000 Per Capita with them), the USA's New Founding Fathers will have to PURGE the laggards by Any and All Means Necessary. After a Seven Generation Cooling Off Period Up North, perhaps the weak genes Hot Pants Problem of Val and Danny will resolve itself.

If you can't draw the parallels between this film and the 2 I mention then you need to do some research and see this film (from a book) is ripped right from the the news of the day with a pinch of an old Hollywood classic thrown in.An aspiring artist from a well to do family is always being told what to do by her domineering mother. She loves men and and isn't ashamed of showing it. One day she meets a war hero at her gallery opening and takes a liking to him. He meets the mother and she likes him but his impression of her quickly changes as she shows her true colors. Instead of the big wedding the mother wants, they both sneak off and get married. The next day he's off to the war for a year. She has a baby and from this he has to work somehow. He's idealistic and wants no help from the mother but she intervenes without him knowing so he'll work for her...something he doesn't want. Years of this life of alcohol and getting whatever you want has wore him down and his wife feels the same. She goes back to her sex with other men ways and he's had it. The daughter they have is impressionable and it affects her greatly. Segway to the crux of the film...the daughter murders her mothers boyfriend. Of course there's more to it than that. Turns out this 15 year old was sleeping with her mother boyfriend all along.This film was a soap opera all the way though. It wasn't badly made but it should or could have just been a TV movie. The content is shocking to me for it's day. A 15 year old girl kills her mother's boyfriend who she was sleeping with also. Sound Familiar? A mix of Mildred Pierce and Lana Turner's real life.With the exception of the redone story, my main issue is Mike Conners. He was made for TV, and in this, it shows. He's just not movie material to me. It's obvious why he was more successful in TV and not in film. Bette Davis plays a character she's done before. A mother figure or leading lady figure who dominates everyone in the house. Susan Hayward does a grand job but it was all for naught in this rehash from the past.Not a bad film folks, it's just that I've seen it before in other incarnations. Watch it to see how similar it looks and feels to a modern day Soap Opera.

"Where Love Has Gone" is a bad movie. The characters are pretty much one-dimensional, the acting is about as subtle as a baseball at upside your head and the script is salacious and sleazy...yet, this film is incredibly entertaining because it's so over-the-top! Subtle, this movie ain't!! The film begins with a killing that I am sure was modeled after the true-life killing of Lana Turner's husband by her daughter from a previous marriage. Though the details aren't 100% certain, it sure bears a lot of similarity to the start of this film. It was a HUGE and very sensational story back in the 50s--and now the tale is being brought to the screen--in a story that has many, many changes from the original true tale.The next portion of the film is a long flashback. Susan Hayward lives with her very rich and extremely controlling and manipulative mother (Bette Davis). She's very unhappy yet she doesn't leave...though she longs for change. When a guy comes into her life (Chuck Connors), Hayward is smitten. Why? Because when Davis tries to wrap him around her finger, he tells her to take her money and stuff it! However, he has no idea that this is what made Hayward love him.Shortly after they marry, Connors' self-esteem is in the toilet. Behind his back, she made sure he'd fail in business and would be forced to work for her company. As a result of this, Connors is disheartened and starts to hit the bottle. And, because he's no longer the virile man who stood up to Davis, Hayward has contempt for him and his weakness--and their marriage fizzles. Soon, he's drunk all the time and she's whoring about with one boy-toy after another. Not surprisingly, they divorce--and the rest is history. These jerks apparently created the poor girl killer (Joey Heatherton) and the rest of the film is about the family trying to pick up the pieces. Who is best to raise this teen killer--the highly unstable and oversexed mother, the ex-alcoholic or the evil controlling mother? How it all ends is,....well....incredible! The plot idea isn't terrible. The problem is that the writing NEVER approaches subtlety or grace-and the ending is just WAAAY over the top!! It's full of screaming, sleaze and, well, a few more doses of sleaze! It's also hilariously preachy. The PRETENDS to be a morality tale to teach parents not to neglect their poor kids, but it's a very, very thin sort of veil for a bucket of steaming..., um,...soap. But it's also very entertaining and you can't keep your eyes off it--like a funny train wreck (if there could be such a thing). And, a lot like "Peyton Place".By the way, if you care, DeForrest Kelley is also in the film in a supporting role. And, oddly, he comes off the best of any of them--playing the role like he's NOT a combination of constipated and intensely mad!

(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!