The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
The red-hot lowdown on a southern family...that people talked about in whispers!
Starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
Directed by Martin Ritt
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 of 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
Runtime: 115 min.
Rating: 7.2
DVD
Languages: English,Spanish
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Drama,Romance
Keywords: mississippi river,based on novel or book,small town,heat,drifter,summer,general store
Cast
Ben Quick
Clara Varner
Jody Varner
Will Varner
Eula Varner
Minnie Littlejohn
Alan Stewart
Agnes Stewart
Elizabeth Stewart
Ratliff
Lucius
Harris (uncredited)