Philip Carey (Laurence Harvey) is clubfooted, a failed artist and a restless medical student at the East London Hospital. He falls for lower class waitress Mildred Rogers (Kim Novak). She tells him that she's marrying another man while in bed with him. When she comes back to him pregnant and abandoned by her husband, he leaves Nora Nesbitt and takes Mildred in for something about "human bondage". She has an affair with his friend Griffiths and they fight. She leaves and later he finds her working as a prostitute. Later still, she's found dying in the hospital and she takes care of her one last time.
There is a lot of complaints about its faithfulness to the novel's characters. I'm not British and cannot comment on Kim Novak's accent as good or bad. All I know is that she exudes star power even in this role. Harvey is stiff and lacks emotional depth. This is an old fashion melodrama. Maybe the changing times got the better of this movie. I personally don't mind sincere melodramas although they're not my favorite genre.
There is a lot of complaints about its faithfulness to the novel's characters. I'm not British and cannot comment on Kim Novak's accent as good or bad. All I know is that she exudes star power even in this role. Harvey is stiff and lacks emotional depth. This is an old fashion melodrama. Maybe the changing times got the better of this movie. I personally don't mind sincere melodramas although they're not my favorite genre.