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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 1958 DVD Release : 20 May, 2003 |
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The Long, Hot Summer description Paul Newman has his glorious youthful swagger in this southern-fried melodrama, which marked his first picture with Joanne Woodward (they married after shooting ended). The script is a melange of William Faulkner stories, although it appears more under the influence of Tennessee Williams and Picnic than the Nobel Prize winner. Drifter Newman catches the eye of schoolmarm Woodward and her father, a rural Mississippi bigshot (Orson Welles). This is not one of Welles's better moments; he appears to be conducting make-up experiments. There is some enjoyable flapdoodle along the way, in the Freud-meets-Gone with the Wind manner of '50s southern cooking, but the ending is embarrassingly compromised. The same production team would leave out the box-office concessions a few years later on Hud. A studly Newman justifies this description of his character: "I wish I was Ben Quick. He's got the whole state of Mississippi to graze on." --Robert Horton |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | My All time Favorite Movie |
| I remember the first time I saw this film. it was on one of the local T.V. late shows when I was in high school. It was summer and the windows were open and I remember the chills that went up my spine when the first strains of the theme song started as I watched in the dark.
Written by one of my favorite authors, William Faulkner and staring some of my favorite actors, this film has just about everything you could ask for to be entertained, romance , drama, conflict and even a few laughs. This became my favorite movie all those years ago...... and it's still my favorite. |
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