From 1957, this was an attempt to bring to the screen Ross Lockridge's brilliant 1948 novel.
All they did here was strip the story to its bones, remove all the lyricism and get a bunch of Hollywood stars to walk around in fancy costumes pretending to talk funny. Clift couldn't act at all. His wooden line readings and body language were an embarrassment. In several scenes it seemed that EMS was playing opposite a mannequin.
The novel wasn't film-able...not in 1957 anyway. Today it would take a gifted writer(s) and the kind of time given to The Wire.
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