"I don't care any more about me . . . "

Rating: 8/10 (7 September 2013)

. . . and craven coward John "Scottie" Ferguson (played here by James Stewart, in perhaps the most reprehensible role during his long film career as the Tom Hanks of his day) sure as heck doesn't give two hoots about the woman he's tossing away like a used facial tissue, either. Nor does Judy-from-Kansas' previous sugar daddy, John's college chum Gavin, who has foisted her off upon John in an overly complicated plot to help himself to an ahead-of-its-time no-fault divorce. John, a completely amoral "whited sepulcher," has no qualms about putting it to Judy when she's masquerading as Gavin's troubled wife, Madeleine. But as soon as John realizes that he is NOT having kinky hand-me-down sex with Gavin's actual discarded spouse, he scrapes Judy out of his life like "Doggie Doo-Doo" on the bottom of his shoe, with the help of the Catholic Church in the guise of a nun who "thought she heard voices." The latter woman intones "God have mercy"--as surely no one on the Corrupt Coast ever had had when poor deluded Judy was still alive--to close out this overwrought "sex mystery" (to use director Alfred Hitchcock's later genre description of MARNIE). Judy\"Madeleine's" downfall was never realizing she was living among the morally bankrupt, and coming to grips with the fact that she definitely "was not in Kansas anymore"!