The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

Movie Details

Original Title The Long, Hot Summer

Original Language EN

Status Released

Popularity 1.3

Cast

Paul Newman

Ben Quick

Popularity: 6.8

Joanne Woodward

Clara Varner

Popularity: 0.8

Anthony Franciosa

Jody Varner

Popularity: 0.6

Orson Welles

Will Varner

Popularity: 1.0

Lee Remick

Eula Varner

Popularity: 1.0

Angela Lansbury

Minnie Littlejohn

Popularity: 1.6

Richard Anderson

Alan Stewart

Popularity: 1.3

Sarah Marshall

Agnes Stewart

Popularity: 1.2

Mabel Albertson

Elizabeth Stewart

Popularity: 0.9

J. Pat O'Malley

Ratliff

Popularity: 0.9

Bill Walker

Lucius

Popularity: 1.3

Robert Adler

Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

Popularity: 1.1

Key Crew

Director Martin Ritt

Producer Jerry Wald

Editor Louis R. Loeffler

Screenplay Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.

Production

Jerry Wald Productions

20th Century Fox

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Keywords

small town based on novel or book arranged marriage host family family relationships sexual tension arson class differences false accusations arsonist sexual repression overbearing father stranger based on short story sharecropper general store father son conflict summertime father son relationship father daughter relationship

Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf 7/10

Sep 29, 2024

This reminded me a little of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1954) with Paul Newman playing the roguish "Quick" who arrives in a small town, dominated by the "Varner" family and quickly tries to ingratiate himself into their wealthy ways. They, indeed the whole town, are dominated by the patriarchal "Will" ... Read more