Toys in the Attic (1963) review

Chicago-based "businessman" Julian Berniers (Dean Martin) takes his young bride Lily (Yvette Mimieux) down to New Orleans with him so he can visit his spinster sisters Carrie (Geraldine Page) and Anna (Dame Wendy Hiller) and offer them gifts (including a piano, a refrigerator and a trip to Europe), but Carrie and Anne are busybodies and Julian's involvement with former lover Charlotte (Nan Martin), the wife of kingpin Cyrus Warkins (Larry Gates), doesn't work out well.  Screenwriter James Poe adapted Lillian Hellman's award-winning play to the screen, except it never manages to be anything more than a creaky Tennessee Williams imitation and the rollout of events is unsurprising: Carrie is so infatuated with Julian it's clearly unhealthy and it's only a matter of time before she manipulates a jealous Lily into sabotaging him.  Some have complained about Martin being miscast, and while that may be a little true, this is hardly his worst role: if he didn't possess such timeless artistic talent, he could have been a very successful swindler in real life.