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The Long, Hot Summer


Year: 1958


Genre:

Drama


Category: Movie


IMDB Rating: 7,5 (NEVAZUT)


IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051878/ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-long-hot-summer-v29952/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1012662-long_hot_summer/


Country: USA


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Director: Martin Ritt


Writer: William Faulkner, Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.


Composer: Alex North


Producer: Jerry Wald


Actors: 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, Al Bain, George Blagoi, Oscar Blank, Danny Borzage, Jim Brandt, Ella Mae Brown, Brian Corcoran, Lee Erickson, Byron Foulger, Jimmie Horan, Eugene Jackson, Michael Jeffers, I. Stanford Jolley, Chester Jones, Nicholas King, Terry Rangno, Paul Ravel, Ralph Reed, Victor Rodman, Pat Rosemond, Arthur Tovey, Helen Wallace, Steve Widders


Description: Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner, in ill health, owns many businesses and property in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment, they 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 Varner has no ambition and does not work, spending much of his time fooling around with his seductive wife, Eula. Twenty-three year old daughter Clara Varner he finds 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, 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 ...


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Duration: 115 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)


File path: Z:\02595 - Long, hot summer (1958) [DVDRip]\TheLongHotSummer.avi


Filesize: 694 MB


Video: XviD - resolution: 560x240


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Subtitles: English, Serbian