The Long, Hot Summer
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Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
- 7.1
- 1958
- Released
- 1h 55m
Paul Newman
Ben Quick
Joanne Woodward
Clara Varner
Anthony Franciosa
Jody Varner
Lee Remick
Eula Varner
Angela Lansbury
Minnie Littlejohn
Richard Anderson
Alan Stewart
Sarah Marshall
Agnes Stewart
Mabel Albertson
Elizabeth Stewart
J. Pat O'Malley
Ratliff
Bill Walker
Lucius
Robert Adler
Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Val Avery
Wilk (uncredited)
Jim Brandt
Linus Olds (uncredited)
Brian Corcoran
Harry Peabody (uncredited)Lee Erickson
Tom Shortly (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Harris (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Houston (uncredited)Nicholas King
John Fisher (uncredited)Ralph Reed
J. V. Bookright (uncredited)Steve Widders
Buddy Peabody (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Man at Auction (uncredited)
Helen Wallace
Minor Role (uncredited)
Released
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- #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
- #southern gothic
- #seducer
- #charming man
Reviews
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" (Orson Welles) who seems determined that his daughter "Clara" (Joanne Woodward) will marry local du