Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick Directed By: Martin Ritt Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 20, 2003 Running Time: 115 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Product Description: No Description Available. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: NR Release Date: 20-MAY-2003 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: 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
WOW! Paul Newman! I first saw this movie in black and white one summer when I was a teenager and I thought it was very steamy then. Now I'm a grandma and it's almost as steamy. I was a little disappointed the movie had been colorized...but Paul Newman is gorgeous!
The Long Hot Summer - Great Movie & Nice That It's On DVD! Classic movie with great performances by Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa and a stunning Lee Remick! Well done!
A Great Love Stpry The Long, Hot Summer This is one of the greatest love stories ever told. The product I received was in great condition like new.
Reality This film certainly tells it like it is, i.e. what kind of charactor believes that this type of situation does not happen. The story line has all of the emotions neatly contained in it and just what can happen when a person believes what other people say about him.
They had a lot of fun making this movie. The first time I saw this movie was on television presented by Schaeffer Award Theatre, a product of the '50's that periodically broadcast a full length feature with one commercial break, roughly at the half-way point of the film. The intermission consisted of an infomercial of the Schaeffer Brewing Company, extolling the highlights of its history.
A N Y W A Y . . .
Even as a kid (and not knowing they were married) I could see something was simmering between Newman and Woodward. I was also certain that Orson Welles was an incarnation of self-made, without-any-smooth-edges Southern gentry in pursuit of a blousy Angela Lansbury(At the time the only other thing I had seen Welles in was Macbeth and I did not connect the bloody Scot with Will Varner). Lee Remick glowed and Tony Franciosa was convincingly lost as everything he took for granted was his was deftly removed, like a razor taken from his hand mid-stroke during his morning shave. The supporting cast only clunked once or twice, but for the most part fit in with the "gestalt" of the film. I realize that Faulkner might have ended the story with Ben Quick vanishing as quickly as he had appeared and Daddy Varner would have bought the farm in flagrante delicto, but this is a piece of '50's Hollywood, when we still had stars, and actors who could act without having to rely on close-ups and electronic tweaking to give their voices range. Watching this with an appropriate mind-set will add to its appeal. I recently watched this with a young southern belle and enjoyed her watching as much as the movie, almost 50 years having elapsed from having seen it for the first time, compliments of Schaeffer, the one beer to have when you're having more than one.
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