Though I'm sure it didn't win any awards for cinematography, the bulk of it takes place in the drawing room of the heiress and her fathers nice house, this is about as good a movie as i've seen in recent memory.
Olivia de havilland does an excellent job playing a girl with no charm. You really do kind of wince when she opens her mouth, at least at first. Montgomery Clift is well cast as her sort of suitor and the unvarnished truth about what people need from each other is explored in an emotionally honest and brutal way.
thumbs up
Complex, sophisticated and unpredictable drama
also, in this era people went to parties with little books. There was some sort of order to the dancing music that was played and if you wanted to dance in 4 songs you would write down someones name in the 5th spot. it's not important where or how these books were distributed. if you dance a waltz it goes "one two three POINT one two three POINT" or something. and if you do a good job you can call your cousin arthur a porridge (sp?) head