Lonelyhearts

Eager for a job, Adam White (Montgomery Clift) starts work as an advice-giving columnist. His editor, Shrike, (Robert Ryan)) takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence, (Myrna Loy) for past adultery, assigning his employees journalistic jobs of little interest. Shrike goads Adam into meeting a correspondent, Fay Doyle, (Dolores Hart) a self-pitying girl who makes a play for him.