A movie by Joseph Mankiewicz, which won the Academy Awards for Best Directing and Best ScreenPlay in 1949. However, one of the greatest thing about this movie might very well be its premise : in your average small American town, Addie, the most seducing lone woman in town, whom we never see through the movie, sends a letter to her three best friends, annoucing them that she has left town with one of their husbands... The three of them could seem to be leaving on the morning, and as the three wives wait for the evening, wondering if it is their husband who has left, they each in their turn remember disputes they had with their husbands...
This movie has a terrific script, and is a very good satire of life in suburban America : the ambitious wife who wants success, working for the radio, while her husband has higher intellectual goals ; the poor girl who is able to seduce the rich supermarket owner... The cast is pretty good, including Kirk Douglas. And, like most of Mankiewicz's movies, this movie is about women.