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Name: Splendor in the Grass
Released: 1961-10-13
Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden

Splendor in the Grass

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2h 4m
1961

74%

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Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty star as two teenaged lovers in 1928 Kansas whose internal conflicts over intimacy and sex--learned from overbearing parents--thwart their hopes for happiness in this heart-wrenching romantic drama.

Director:

Elia Kazan

Producer:

Elia Kazan

Writer:

William Inge

Cast:

Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert, Fred Stewart, Joanna Roos, Sandy Dennis, Gary Lockwood

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

74%

Reviews

Jet Magazine

Louie Robinson

Under the direction of famed Elia Kazan, Natalie Wood turns in a performance that will surprise many moviegoers for its excellence, and Warren Beatty makes his debut as a film actor slightly spectacular.

Elia Kazan directs Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty to some of their finest performances in Splendor in the Grass. William Inge's Oscar-winning screenplay leaves something more to be desired but the film's cast is able to elevate the script for what it is.

We have gotten smart enough to resist the allure of Inge’s pretentious but inane dialogue.

A great part of the blame for the dullness of the film, however, lies with Elia Kazan. On other occasions he has let the camera help the author tell his story. Here, his images are as spongy as the ones that Inge's screenplay suggests.

Having finally ditched the boxed-in theatrical form, Kazan hurls his shrieking restlessness directly at the audience in what seems a last ditch effort to summon up the memorializing grandeur of latter-day George Stevens direction.

September 15, 2021

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