The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

The Long, Hot Summer | United States of America

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.

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Director

Martin Ritt

Writers

Irving Ravetch
Harriet Frank Jr.

Stars

Paul Newman
Ben Quick

Joanne Woodward
Clara Varner

Anthony Franciosa
Jody Varner

Orson Welles
Will 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

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Keywords

based on novel, small town, father daughter relationship, arson, based on short story, sexual tension, family relationships, false accusations, summertime, arranged marriage, father son relationship, class differences, southern gothic, sexual repression, sharecropper, general store

Production

20th Century Fox, Jerry Wald Productions

Actor

Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Richard Anderson, Sarah Marshall, Mabel Albertson, J. Pat O'Malley, Bill Walker, Robert Adler, Val Avery, Jim Brandt, Brian Corcoran, Lee Erickson, Byron Foulger, I. Stanford Jolley, Nicholas King, Ralph Reed, Steve Widders

Creators

Louis R. Loeffler (Editor), Lyle R. Wheeler (Art Direction), Joseph LaShelle (Director of Photography), Alex North (Original Music Composer), Walter M. Scott (Set Decoration), Lionel Newman (Conductor), E. Clayton Ward (Sound), William Faulkner (Novel), L.B. Abbott (Special Effects), Martin Ritt (Director), Charles Le Maire (Wardrobe Designer), Ben Nye (Makeup Artist), Helen Turpin (Hairstylist), Harry M. Leonard (Sound), Jerry Wald (Producer), Irving Ravetch (Screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr. (Screenplay), Eli Benneche (Set Decoration), Maurice Ransford (Art Direction), Adele Palmer (Costume Design), Sammy Cahn (Lyricist), Jimmie Rodgers (Vocals), Eli Dunn (Assistant Director), Leonard Doss (Other)

Alternative titles

夏日春情 (CN)
Долгое жаркое лето (RU)
Długie, gorące lato (PL)
La Lunga Estate Calda (IT)
Hosszú, forró nyár (HU)
Der Lange, heiße Sommer (DE)
Les Feux de l'été (FR)
O Mercador de Almas (BR)
長く熱い夜 (1958) (JP)
Dlouhé horké léto (CZ)
El largo y cálido verano (ES)

Release dates

17.05.1958 (FR)
18.05.1958 (DE)
29.08.1958 (FI)
13.03.1958 (US)
27.05.1959 (DK)
04.12.1998 (BR)
26.05.1958 (SE)