The Long, Hot Summer
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- Drama
Overview
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Keywords
- family relationships
- father daughter relationship
- based on novel or book
- class differences
- small town
- based on short story
- arson
- father son relationship
- arranged marriage
- false accusations
- stranger
- father son conflict
- seducer
- overbearing father
- sexual tension
- host family
- southern gothic
- sharecropper
- summertime
- arsonist
- sexual repression
- general store
- charming man
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 17, 1958
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox,Jerry Wald Productions
- Cast
- Paul Newman,Joanne Woodward,Anthony Franciosa,Orson Welles,Lee Remick,Angela Lansbury,Richard Anderson,Sarah Marshall,Mabel Albertson,J. Pat O'Malleyand 13 more
- Director
- Martin Ritt
- Producer
- Jerry Wald
- Cinematography
- Joseph LaShelle
- Music
- Alex North
- Budget
- $1,600,000
- Revenue
- $3,500,000
- IMDb
- tt0051878