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Like most Chayefsky plots, the story of Affair is thin. Debbie Reynolds and her schoolteacher beau (Rod Taylor) plan a quiet, quick marriage in order to take advantage of a free auto trip to California for their honeymoon. Her careworn parents (Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine) agree-until the neighbor start talking ("Why so sudden? Is she in trouble?"). Then the parents meet their prospective in-laws, who relate, down to the last insufferable penny, how many thousands they spent in properly marrying off their own daughters. Bette Davis digs in her heels, insists that Debbie get a marriage...
...love is hotter than a hot-rod...
...serves his opponents a punch that would scarcely be too stiff for a six-year-old's birthday party. Like Carnera, El Toro (touchingly portrayed by Wrestler Mike Lane) falls among thieves. A well-known gambler and fixologist named Nick Benko (played good and heavy by Rod Steiger) buys up his contract and starts to fatten the Bull for the kill...
...Crimson lineup, from first through ninth singles, will be Dale Junta, Brooks Harris, Ham Gravem, Steve Gottlieb, Maynard Canfield, Steve Kay, Al Goldman, Pete Krogh, and Rod Nickols...
Then comes the usual mixture: one God-fearing pioneer with a bobbing adam's apple, a cross-eyed blond, and a horny cowpoke (amusingly played by Rod Steiger). And, after this, the inevitable lynching party. As reel three goes on, the question is who will save Jubal from the noose. Justice? Or indians? Or both...