The Long, Hot Summer(Movie, 1958)

Name: The Long, Hot Summer
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 1958
Duration: T01:55:00
Rating: 3.6

1h 55min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 81 votes)

The Long, Hot Summer is a 1958 American drama film starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, and Orson Welles. It was directed by Martin Ritt, with a screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., based in part on three works by William Faulkner: the 1931 novella "Spotted Horses", the 1939 short story "Barn Burning" and the 1940 novel The Hamlet. The title is taken from The Hamlet, as Book Three is called "The Long Summer". Some characters, as well as tone, were inspired by Tennessee Williams' 1955 play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a film adaptation of which– also starring Newman – was released 5 months later. The plot follows the conflicts of the Varner family after ambitious drifter Ben Quick (Newman) arrives in their small Mississippi town. Will Varner (Welles), the patriarch, has doubts about his son, Jody (Franciosa) and sees ... ()

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National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

About The Long, Hot Summer

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.

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Trailer for The Long, Hot Summer + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

The Long, Hot Summer (1958) | Official Trailer(Trailer, 2:37)

The Long, Hot Summer (1958) | Official Trailer (Trailer) | Trailer (Trailer)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Mississippi

Made by: Jerry Wald Productions, 20th Century Fox

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)

Translated into 22 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 05/17/1958

Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Richard Anderson, Bill Walker, J. Pat O'Malley, Mabel Albertson, Val Avery, Sarah Marshall, Byron Foulger

Director: Martin Ritt

Producer: Jerry Wald

Screenwriter: William Faulkner, Harriet Frank Jr.

Film Editor: Louis R. Loeffler

Director of Photography: Joseph LaShelle

Composer: Alex North

Performer: Jimmie Rodgers

Costume designer: Adele Palmer

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"O Mercador de Almas"

"夏日春情"

"Dlouhé horké léto"

"Der Lange, heiße Sommer"

"El largo y cálido verano"

"Les Feux de l'été"

"Hosszú, forró nyár"

"La Lunga Estate Calda"

"長く熱い夜 (1958)"

"Długie, gorące lato"

"Долгое жаркое лето"

Keywords: father daughter relationship, sharecropper, class differences, based on novel or book, sexual tension, based on short story, arranged marriage, false accusations, sexual repression, small town

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The Long, Hot Summer(Movie, 1958)

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