Puzzle of a Downfall Child
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| Directed by | Jerry Schatzberg |
| Produced by | John Foreman |
| Screenplay by | Adrian Joyce |
| Story by |
Jerry Schatzberg Adrian Joyce |
| Starring |
Faye Dunaway Barry Morse Viveca Lindfors Roy Scheider Barry Primus Ruth Jackson John Heffernan Sydney Walker |
| Music by | Michael Small |
| Cinematography | Adam Holender |
| Edited by | Evan Lottman |
| Distributed by | Universal Studios |
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Running time
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Puzzle of a Downfall Child is a 1970 film drama directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Faye Dunaway, Barry Morse, Viveca Lindfors, Roy Scheider and Barry Primus.
A beautiful but disturbed young woman lives alone at a beach cottage, reliving her past, a life of delusions and lies.
Lou Andreas Sand (Dunaway) is a former fashion model whose life has gone into a downward spiral including drug use and a nervous breakdown. She tells an acquaintance, Aaron Reinhardt (Primus), her story for a film he is planning on her, but the details do not ring true.
Lou evidently had a lover who abused her and a penchant for sex with strange men. Along the way, she became engaged to marry Mark (Scheider), an ad executive, but apparently jilted him on the day of their wedding, leading to her descent into drugs and an attempted suicide.
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