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Name: The Long, Hot Summer
Released: 1958-3-5
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick

The Long, Hot Summer

NR
1h 57m
1958

86%

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Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury co-star in this riveting tale of life in the Deep South. When Ben Quick (Newman), a suspected barnburner drifts into town, he catches the eye of Will Varner, a tyrannical, intimidating patriarch (Welles) who decides Quick is the ideal husband for his spinsterish daughter (Woodward). But once the loner moves in, the two men lock horns, drawing Varner's family into a complex web of emotions leaving all of them changed forever. Based on several short stories by William Faulkner.

Director:

Martin Ritt

Writer:

Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr., William Faulkner

Cast:

Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, William Walker, Mabel Albertson, Sarah Marshall, Richard Anderson, J. Pat O'Malley

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

86%

Reviews

Cosmopolitan

Marshall Scott

An excellent cast gives an exceptional performance under Martin Ritt's skilled direction.

To be nice, let's just say simply that Ritt is perhaps not a common hack but an honest gaffer (even then, there are better).

Martin Ritt directs a first-rate cast in this adaptation of several stories by William Faulkner.

Based on three stories by William Faulkner, this is a robust and enjoyable comedy-drama about life in a Deep South town dominated by a rascally old millionaire (Orson Welles).

Ritt would go on to make better films, more focused and tightly directed, but The Long, Hot Summer is nevertheless an actors showcase, something Ritt excelled at.

June 4, 2019

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