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starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remickdirected by: Martin Ritt
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301599221
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6301599225
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 13612
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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!
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - My All time Favorite Movie
I remember the first time I saw this film. it was on one of the local T.V. late shows when I was in high school. It was summer and the windows were open and I remember the chills that went up my spine when the first strains of the theme song started as I watched in the dark.
Written by one of my favorite authors, William Faulkner and staring some of my favorite actors, this film has just about everything you could ask for to be entertained, romance , drama, conflict and even a few laughs. ... Read More
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