The Long, Hot Summer
The Long, Hot Summer

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- 73/100 based on 11,875 votes
  • Released: 1958
  • Runtime: 115 mins
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  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • Genres: Drama

Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner (Orson Welles), in ill health, owns many businesses and property in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment, who he sees as not being able to carry on the Varner name in the style to which he has built around it. Son Jody (Anthony Francoisa) has no ambition and does not work, spending much of his time fooling around with his seductive wife, Eula (Lee Remick). He finds 23-year-old d... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Long, Hot Summer:

Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward
Anthony Franciosa
Orson Welles
Lee Remick
Angela Lansbury

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Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner (Orson Welles), in ill health, owns many businesses and property in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment, who he sees as not being able to carry on the Varner name in the style to which he has built around it. Son Jody (Anthony Francoisa) has no ambition and does not work, spending much of his time fooling around with his seductive wife, Eula (Lee Remick). He finds 23-year-old daughter Clara (Joanne Woodward) clever, but he feels she also wastes her time on more contemplative pursuits. While most of her contemporaries are married, Clara has been dating Alan Stewart (Richard Anderson), a genteel mama's boy, for six years. Will would not mind Alan so much if he too thought Alan had a bit of a forceful man in him, which he could demonstrate by actually asking Clara to marry him. Conversely, Jody laments that nothing he does is ever good enough for his father, while Clara plain does not like the way he treats them. Into their lives comes Ben Quick (Paul Newman), who Jody hired while Will was hospitalized, to do some sharecropping on currently vacant land. Despite Will believing the unsubstantiated stories that Ben burned down someone's barn as an act of vengeance, Will becomes to view Ben as the son he never had, as he is much the same mold. As such, Will does whatever he can to get Ben to be part of the family to carry on the Varner name the way Will wants it be, which means marrying Clara. Through the process, Clara may come to a realization about what she really wants in life, while Jody does whatever he can to retain his position in the family.

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Cinema em Cena - 8/10 by Pablo VillaçaO belo roteiro, escrito a partir de histórias de William Faulkner, ganha ainda mais dimensão graças às performances de Newman, Woodward e Welles - além, é claro, da direção segura de Martin Ritt e da ótima fotografia.
Apollo Guide - 8/10 by Jamie GilliesThe conclusion is surprising and quite exciting, as this self-contained little southern world unravels.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 7/10 by Emanuel LevyThis small-town family melodrama, a quintessential 1950s film in its themes and tensions, is well acted by Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Lee Remick.
Variety - 4/10 by Variety StaffThis picture is strikingly directed by Martin Ritt.
User Review - 10/10 by william bOrson Welles is so marvelous as Varner that I can only watch him. He was only in his early forties when he made the picture, He made the picture. Genius.
User Review - 10/10 by melissa pThe most representative movie of early 1900s southern living. Also chock full of non-PC dialogue gems.
User Review - 10/10 by NICOLEwonderful movie.ovely dramatic, but that is what is great about old movies. also met his wife during the filming. they have been married for 50 years.
User Review - 10/10 by B) MEE ree am ♥great classic! the made for tv one sucks balls dammit!!!
User Review - 10/10 by Byron BA must see for anyone. Newman and Woodward are brilliant!
User Review - 10/10 by Leanne RTruthfully? I've lost my heart over the nostalgic patio furniture......... *sigh*

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