No Down Payment (1957) on Netflix
New to the Sunrise Hills subdivision, David and Jean Martin meet Herman and Betty Kreitzer, Troy and Leola Boone, and Jerry and Isabelle Flagg. Troy Boone seeks the police chief's job.
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Plot summary
Four couples share the new southern California subdivision of Sunrise Hills. Electrical engineer David Martin and his wife Jean are the newcomers, welcomed by their neighbors: appliance store manager Herman Kreitzer and his wife Betty, auto mechanic Troy Boone and his wife Leola, and car salesman Jerry Flagg and his wife Isabelle. Leola wants a child, but Troy, a veteran who has applied for the job of police chief, refuses to discuss it until he gets the post. Jerry drinks, makes passes at other men's wives and spends far beyond his means, humiliating Isabelle. Jean pushes David toward sales, though he prefers engineering. Herman, who serves as city council president, employs Iko, who hopes to move his family into Sunrise Hills.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about No Down Payment (1957)
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- The screenplay was credited to Philip Yordan, but Walter Bernstein said it had actually been written by Ben Maddow, and that no one knew it, not even the director.
- Writer Philip Yordan paid paperback author John McPartland $7,500 to write a novel from Yordan's own story, keeping the film rights himself, and estimated McPartland made $35,000 on the book.
- Yordan said Fox head Spyros Skouras felt the finished movie was "a leftist picture" and as a result "killed the picture."
- Yordan wrote "a sex picture with the economics in there," but Martin Ritt only cared about the economics, so Yordan had to cut out all but a little of the sex.
- Robert Stack was offered the role of Troy Boone in the film but turned it down because he disliked the character.
