and Maggie could live in the house and if they did, he would dig a moat around it and never leave it. Maggie says she loves him. The contractor for the house shows up and thinks Maggie is Larry's wife. They both take a moment to savor the irony of his remark and Maggie drives away. Cast Kirk Douglas as Larry Coe Kim Novak as Margaret Gault Ernie Kovacs as Roger Altar Barbara Rush as Eve Coe Walter Matthau as Felix Anders Virginia Bruce as Mrs. Wagner Kent Smith as Stanley Baxter Helen Gallagher as Betty Anders John Bryant as Ken Gault Sue Ane Langdon as Daphne Nancy Kovack as Marcia Production Art director Ross Bellah elected to have a real house built for the one Larry Coe is designing for Roger Altar in the film. Bellah, with architect Carl Anderson, designed an all-wood 3,800-square-foot house and had it built on a hillside lot in Bel Air. The filming schedule had to be closely aligned with the house's construction schedule because the house was an important element of the plot, and scenes had to be filmed at various stages of construction. The house, at 930 Chantilly Road, Los Angeles, still stands today. Reception Variety said that the film is "...easy on the eyes but hard on the intellect...an old-fashioned soap opera", and: "It is a rather pointless, slow-moving story, but it has been brought to the screen with such skill that it charms the spectator into an attitude of relaxed enjoyment, much the same effect as that produced by a casual daydream fantasy". Time magazine called the movie: "pure tripe". "Unvaried strangulated hush", is how film critic Stanley Kauffmann, in The New Republic, described Novak's diction. Craig Butler at Allmovie says that Douglas "seems a little out of place", and that the screenplay is "predictable". See also List of American films of 1960 References External links Tonguette, Peter. - Strangers When We Meet. - The Film Journal Strangers When We Meet at Trailers from Hell 1960 films 1960 drama films Adultery in films American drama films Columbia Pictures films 1960s English-language films Films about architecture Films based on American novels Films directed by Richard Quine Films scored by George Duning Films set in Los Angeles Films with screenplays by Evan Hunter Bryna Productions films 1960s American films