Butterfield 8

Butterfield 8 (1960)

  • 47% of critics liked it
    (17 reviews)

  • 58% of users liked it
    (3,953 ratings)

A woman who has long been short on feelings falls in love with a married man in this emotional drama. Gloria Wondrous (Elizabeth Taylor) is a model and party girl who lives for pleasure and is willing to take men for what she can get from them. Gloria bounces from man to man, but feels that she can… More

Play Trailer

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
John O'Hara, Charles Schnee
Genres
Drama, Classics
In Theaters
Nov 4, 1960 Wide
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • , TIME Magazine

    A sleek and libidinous lingerie meller.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    It's just about as awful as you'd expect, despite the presence of two first-class screenwriter.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Under director Daniel Mann's guidance it is an extremely sexy and intimate film, but the intimacy is only skin deep, the sex only a dominating behavior pattern.

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    Once thought of as racy and adventurous in its treatment of sex, this turgid nonsense about a high-class whore with love in her heart has dated atrociously.

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    The dialogue is rough. Let's say O'Harrowing. And the ending is absurd. But so is most of it for that matter. It's the living it up that gets you in this film.

Read all 13 critic reviews

See more critic ratings and reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)

Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)

Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lady D


    A glamourous Liz Taylor is a rebel of a lass in this (slightly controversial at the time) story, parts were enjoyable, none of it relatable and all very glamourised for such a lifestyle.

  • Robert C


    When kept in perspective (it was late 50's early 60's) it's quite a bold film (in regard to subject matter) about a girl who is looking for love in all the wrong places. It is also a rather sad story about how when you go too far down one "path" in life, it… More

  • Universal D


    With lines like a comedy ridiculing this genre played straight, it took an act of will to stomach this garbage, this trash, about trash. Maybe its better than I give it credit for ... but noooooo.

  • Jennifer X


    So what's this I hear about this film being a piece of trash? Maybe it's just due to Liz Taylor's fascinating sex appeal, but I found Butterfield 8 to be utterly sumptuous. Poor dependable sap Eddie Fisher pulsating with desire for Gloria's touch, but making do… More

  • Saskia D


    I love this woman to pieces! The more I see of her, the more I'm convinced what a phenomenal actress she is! And boy is she HOT!!! <div style="width:290px;"><a… More

Read all 11 featured audience ratings

Also available on

UltraViolet Retailers

Other Retailers

Subscription Services

Not Available
Not Available
Not Available

Cast

See more (24)

Trailers & Clips