Love Has Many Faces

{{short description|1965 film by Alexander Singer}} {{for|the Joni Mitchell box set|Love Has Many Faces (box set)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | image = Love Has Many Faces poster.jpg | caption = film poster by [[Howard Terpning]] | director = [[Alexander Singer]] | producer = [[Jerry Bresler (film producer)|Jerry Bresler]] | writer = [[Marguerite Roberts]] | starring = [[Lana Turner]]<br>[[Cliff Robertson]]<br>[[Hugh O'Brian]] | music = [[David Raksin]] | cinematography = [[Joseph Ruttenberg]] | editing = [[Alma Macrorie]] | studio = Jerry Bresler Productions | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] | released = {{film date|1965|2|24|New York City}} | runtime = 105 minutes | country = United States | language = English | gross = $1,100,000<ref>Anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America. See "Top Grossers of 1965", ''Variety'', 5 January 1966 p 36.</ref> }}

'''''Love Has Many Faces''''' is a 1965 American [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Alexander Singer]], and written by [[Marguerite Roberts]]. [[Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)|Nancy Wilson]] sings the title song and [[Edith Head]] designed [[Lana Turner]]'s clothes.

==Plot== When a dead American "beach boy" is washed up on a beach in Acapulco, the police do an investigation to see if it was murder. Lieutenant Riccardo Andrade ([[Enrique Lucero]]) of the Mexican police interviews three suspects. Hank Walker ([[Hugh O'Brian]]) is another beach boy who works as a [[gigolo]] as well as blackmails vacationing middle-aged American women. Pete Jordan ([[Cliff Robertson]]) is a former beach boy who married rich American Kit ([[Lana Turner]]). She met Pete when he was selling his blood and bought all of him. The dead man was wearing a bracelet engraved "LOVE IS THIN ICE," which the police discover was given to him by Kit. They also discover that he'd had an affair with her.

In addition to the police, the dead American's deserted girlfriend, Carol Lambert ([[Stefanie Powers]]), comes to Mexico to find out about her former boyfriend's death.

==Cast== * [[Lana Turner]] as Katherine Lawson "Kit" Chandler Jordan * [[Cliff Robertson]] as Pete Jordan <ref name="cliff">{{cite magazine |date=March 1, 2026 |first=Stephen |last=Vagg |url=https://www.filmink.com.au/not-quite-movie-stars-cliff-robertson/ |title=Not Quite Movie Stars: Cliff Robertson |magazine=[[Filmink]] |publisher=FKP International Exports |access-date=March 1, 2026}}</ref> * [[Hugh O'Brian]] as Hank Walker * [[Ruth Roman]] as Margot Eliot * [[Stefanie Powers]] as Carol Lambert * [[Virginia Grey]] as Irene Talbot * [[Ron Husmann]] as Chuck Austin * [[Enrique Lucero]] as Lieutenant Riccardo Andrade * [[Carlos Montalbán]] as Don Julian * [[Jaime Bravo]] as Manuel Perez * [[Fanny Schiller]] as Maria * René Dupeyrón as Ramos

==Critical reception== The ''[[New York Times]]'' was unimpressed: “Everything has been done to make Lana Turner feel at home in ''Love Has Many Faces'', starting geographically. The picture, shot in color in Acapulco and Mexico City, provides a radiant background of natural scenery and swanky interiors as befits a glamour queen...It’s all here—everything but a good picture. For this dramatic Columbia round-up of some resort parasites...is the glossiest kind of junk, even for Miss Turner. If ever baloney needed mustard, it was yesterday. There must have been some lying around Acapulco Beach, along with the cast...Miss Turner is finally done in by a bull. That’s right—a bull. There’s plenty of it in ''Love Has Many Faces''.”<ref>Thompson, Howard. “’Love Has Many Faces’ Opens at Capitol.” New York Times, 25 February 1965, 24.</ref>

==See also== *[[List of American films of 1965]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0059403}} * {{TCMDb title|id=27712}} * {{AFI film|id=18538|title=Love Has Many Faces}}

[[Category:1965 films]] [[Category:Films set in Mexico]] [[Category:Films shot in Mexico]] [[Category:Columbia Pictures films]] [[Category:1965 English-language films]] [[Category:1965 drama films]] [[Category:American drama films]] [[Category:Films scored by David Raksin]] [[Category:Films directed by Alexander Singer]] [[Category:1965 American films]] [[Category:English-language drama films]]