SILVER

This sensitive and passionate film opens in a crumbling Victorian house, disgraced by its conversion to a tourist hotel and the unhappy marriage of its owners. Teens Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue fall madly in love, unaware that her father and his mother were lovers themselves, 20 years before — and are now once again, though each is married to someone else. By the film's conclusion, pairs have been re-matched, East coast traded for West, and the promise of a better day is capped by the announcement that "Frank Lloyd Wright designed our house." Exteriors of Wright's Walker Residence in Carmel were used extensively, while its angular, stone-filled interiors were recreated on a sound stage. The unusual beachfront house signals not only the new couple's progressive attitude toward architecture but also their determination to buck tradition when it comes to love. DIR/SCR/PROD Delmer Daves, from the novel by Sloan Wilson. U.S., 1959, color, 130 min. NOT RATED

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