The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer

  • Director: Martin Ritt
  • Writer: William Faulkner,Irving Ravetch,Harriet Frank Jr.
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: May 18, 1958
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Dugo toplo ljeto
  • The Long Hot Summer is directed by Martin Ritter and written by Owen Lafge and Harriet Frank Jr., based on the novels of William Faulkner and starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward .
    The film tells the story of a homeless family named Ben Crack who arrives in a small town of Mississippi , causing conflict in a local family.

    Details

    • Release date May 18, 1958
    • Filming locations Clinton, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies Jerry Wald Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,500,000 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Fanny 2022-04-09 08:01:03

      summer spring

      During the Spring Festival, I turned out this old film and watched it again; the slow singing at the beginning accompanied the music - "the long hot summer...", and your heart will be attracted all of a sudden. I just don't dare to think about it too much, for fear that it will evoke the plot of my old movie. At that time, people had neat hair, decent clothes, polite manners, traditional Hollywood collocation, furniture decoration, etc., so natural, not like today It's chaotic and comfortable...

    • By Americo 2022-04-09 08:01:03

      "The Long Summer" Movie Script

      "The Long Hot Summer" Screenplay

      Screenplay: William Faulkner
      Director: Martin Ritter
      Translation: Yuan

      Luming But within reason; the language is witty and humorous; the ending is both unexpected and memorable. The hero and heroine Paul Newman and Jonny Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Actor; the other protagonist, Orson Welles, wrote, directed and acted in the famous film "Citizen Kane". (CCTV plans to show the film this spring.)

      A...

    • By Landen 2022-04-09 08:01:03

      "Summer Spring"

      The rich family, because of a young man's involvement, intensified all kinds of relationships, and finally everyone got their own perfect destination.

      In addition to the happy ending, the film is far more profound than the imagined love of different classes. I have to admire the father played by Orson Welles. It can be said that this eccentric old man is the soul of the film, and the newcomer Paul Newman is just a shadow of his youth.

      The film's overly staged lines make even...

    • By Alexzander 2022-04-09 08:01:03

      It's all Austin's fault

      Based on William Faulkner's novel "The Village" (the first of the "Snopes" trilogy), the film depicts the history of poor boys starting from scratch. Except for the poor boys, the film almost completely weakens the original work. The social significance is replaced by a twists and turns love story. I read William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" a few years ago. By the time I saw the end, my memory of the beginning was blurry. The lack of cultural background knowledge was a major obstacle to...

    • By Julian 2022-04-09 08:01:03

      One-pot rice

      Newman and woodward can be considered a Hollywood story. After Newman got married, he had always been sincere to Woodward. Others asked him, after so many years, as the most handsome and elegant man in America, has he never been tempted? "I have steak at home, why eat a burger outside," Newman said. But don't forget, Newman also abandoned his wife and son for Woodward, and this steak really suits his appetite.

      I've always thought Newman was the most charming man in America, and I'm...

    User comments

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    • By Devyn 2022-04-13 09:01:06

      i think orson is...

    • By Rosalee 2022-04-13 09:01:06

      A daughter who is no longer stubborn, a son who is no longer inferior, and a father who learns to reflect, a successful summer. Fresh and musty old southern...

    • By Krystal 2022-04-12 09:01:10

      Slightly dull and entertaining enough, Paul Newman is so...

    • By Ashleigh 2022-04-12 09:01:10

      I really like the color films of the 50s and 60s in...

    • By Eduardo 2022-04-12 09:01:10

      A family full of contradictions and deformed emotions, a foreign sexy intruder, how could it be a happy...

    Background creation

    Producer Jerry Wald hired former colleague, Warner Bros. director Martin Ritter, at the recommendation of playwright Owen Lafge , to bring two screenplays based on William Faulkner's novels to the screen. Wald persuaded company executives to pay $50,000 for the film rights to the novels "The Sound and the Furious" and "The Hamlet." The latter was produced first, but was renamed The Long Hot Summer to avoid conflict with William...
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    Evaluation action

    The film received good reviews after its release, but it did poorly at the box office, only reaching $3.5 million.
    Billboard praised the acting in the film as "top-notch," with a special tribute to Woodward, but also to Ritter's director. While Journalist highlighted the film's similarities to "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", it described the film's choice of actors as "impressive" but said the actors and characters "always seem to be out of...
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    Movie quotes

    • Ben: If you're scared of me, mister, why don't you just come right out and say so?

      Will Varner: Sir, why should I be scared of you?

      Ben: 'Cause I got a reputation for being a dangerous man.

      Will Varner: You're a young dangerous man. I'm an old one. I guess you don't know who I am. I better introduce myself. I'm the big landowner, chief moneylender in these parts. I'm commissioner of elections, veterinarian, own a store and a cotton gin and a grist mill and a blacksmith shop... and it's considered unlucky for a man to do his trading or gin his cotton or grind his meal or shoe his stock anywhere else. Now that's who I am.

      Ben: You talk a lot.

      Will Varner: Well, yes I do, sir. I'm done talking to you, except for passing you on this piece of information. I built me a new jail in my courthouse this year, and if during the course of your stay, something, anything at all should just happen to catch fire, I think you ought to know that in my jail, we never heard of the words habeas corpus. You rot.

    • Ben: Yes or no, mister. Ain't no in between.

    • Minnie Littlejohn: I made plans, Will, matrimonial plans.

      Will Varner: Now you ain't ever heard me say the word matrimony.

      Minnie Littlejohn: Well now, I'm willing to overlook that.