Elizabeth Taylor's Oscar-winning performance as an up-market whore with a heart is the chief, if not only, interest of this otherwise weak and dated drama. Based on a 1930s novel by John O'Hara, the film's attitude to sex was controversial on its release in 1960, but it is tepid stuff today. Eddie Fisher, Taylor's husband at the time, fails to convince as the call girl's long-time friend, while Laurence Harvey looks equally uncomfortable as the married man with whom she has a passionate affair.

Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.