Glass Houses
Cast & Crew
Alexander Singer
Bernard Barrow
Dierdre Lenihan
Jennifer O'neill
Ann Summers
Phillip Pine
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In Los Angeles, Victor and his business partner Ted, a middle-aged bachelor, manufacture parlor games. Bored with his upper-middle class, suburban existence, Victor is having an affair with Jean, a twenty-one-year-old model, and neglecting his wife and nineteen-year-old daughter, Kim. While his wife suppresses any feelings of rejection through activity in neighborhood committees, where she meets a local writer of sex novels, Kim resents her father's absences and has an affair with Ted. When she happens to learn that Victor and Jean will attend a weekend encounter group retreat outside the city, Kim convinces the unwitting Ted to take her. There, she imagines seeing her father nude, while her mother, who has remained at home, has sexual fantasies about the novelist, with whom she ends up spending the night. To Victor's embarrassment and anger, he discovers Kim's presence during a group session the next morning and exchanges angry words with Ted, who leaves the retreat alone. Although his affair with Jean has now grown cold, Victor drives back to Los Angeles with both young women, who have befriended each other. When he returns home, Victor finds the house empty, as his wife is still with the novelist. Kim goes upstairs to take a shower, but returns, seductively wrapped in a towel.
Director
Alexander Singer
Cast
Bernard Barrow
Dierdre Lenihan
Jennifer O'neill
Ann Summers
Phillip Pine
Clarke Gordon
Gar Campbell
Tom Toner
Lorna Thayer
Logan Ramsey
Maury Hill
Holly Irving
Mary Carver
All Checco
Joan Kaye
Janice Barr
Alma Beltran
Lloyd Kino
Tom J. Halligan
Eve Mcveagh
William Cort
James Wellman
Albert Popwell
Laurie Hagen
Robert Karnes
Karen Lind
David Morick
George Berkley
Anita Raffi
Jack Grinnage
Elizabeth Ross
John Wyler
Jack Mattis
Davis Roberts
Chris Carmody
Rhoda Anderson
Pat Walter
Ruth Stanley
Crew
Robert Allen
Sidney Baldwin
Suzanne Bond
Lyle J. Burbridge
George Folsey Sr.
George Folsey Jr.
George Folsey Jr.
George Folsey Jr.
Clarke Gordon
Thomas Greenleigh
Paul Hochman
Ralph Ives
Norman Jost
Franklin Milton
Art Pullin
David Raksin
Russ Roberts
Aaron Rochin
Robert Romero
Eric Roth
Juliet Schoen
Alexander Singer
Judith Singer
Jason Starks
Joel Steinberger
Michael Tadros
Edward Trujillo
Esperanza Vasquez
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Glass Houses, which was not viewed, was released with a duration of 90 or 91 minutes, although, according to Filmfacts, a 1970 trade screen showing had a running time of 103 minutes. The Box Office review listed November 1971 as the release date, but no theatrical showings have been verified prior to January 1972, when the picture opened in New York.
According to Filmfacts and the Los Angeles Times review, husband-and-wife team Alexander and Judith Singer wrote the script more than two years earlier and produced the film independently. The film was sold to Columbia, but was shelved for more than a year before finally being released after Jennifer O'Neill, whose role as "Jean" was her first feature film, achieved stardom in Summer of '42 . Also marking her first-and only-feature film in Glass Houses was Dierdre Lenihan ("Kim"), who has continued her career in television. According to Filmfacts, Glass Houses was shot at various locations throughout Los Angeles, CA. The New York Times reviewer, who reported the picture's frequent cross-cutting between simultaneous sex scenes, described the film as reminiscent of soft-core pornographic films from earlier eras in movie history.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1971
Released in United States 1971
