Hotstar Cinema
Sweet Bird of Youth
Back to Home
Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth

"He used love like most men use money."

6.8(120 votes)
1962
2h 0m
DramaRomance

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

Watch Trailer

Available on

TCMAmazon VideoApple TVGoogle Play MoviesYouTube
Watch Now

Production

Companies:
Roxbury Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

Original:en
Spoken:
English

You Might Also Like

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
7.5
Movie

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947

A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.

Hud
7.3
Movie

Hud

1963

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

Letter from an Unknown Woman
7.8
Movie

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

Conversation Piece
7.3
Movie

Conversation Piece

1974

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

The Kentucky Fried Movie
6.2
Movie

The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977

A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
6.5
Movie

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.

Peyton Place
6.8
Movie

Peyton Place

1957

In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.

Los Ángeles
6.0
Movie

Los Ángeles

2009

In Los Angeles, only a few people survived the closure of the railroad. This is the story of the last residents who refused to leave the town and those who dared to seek life in the city.

Jane Wants a Boyfriend
6.1
Movie

Jane Wants a Boyfriend

2015

A young woman with Asperger's tries to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister.

The Female Animal
5.7
Movie

The Female Animal

1958

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...

They Kill Me If I Don't Work and If I Work They Kill Me
10.0
Movie

They Kill Me If I Don't Work and If I Work They Kill Me

1974

Documentary on the situation of INSUD factory metalworkers, who, because of lead and poor working conditions, suffer from sickness and death by lead poisoning.

The Two Orphans
7.5
Movie

The Two Orphans

1933

A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.