The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

Drama Romance

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

Updated May 11 2020

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1958-04-03

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mississippi heat summer

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Runtime: 115 mins Rating: 7.2 Tag Line: The red-hot lowdown on a southern family...that people talked about in whispers!

Cast

Orson Welles

Will Varner

Lee Remick

Eula Varner

Paul Newman

Ben Quick

Richard Anderson

Alan Stewart

Angela Lansbury

Minnie Littlejohn

Mabel Albertson

Elizabeth Stewart

J. Pat O'Malley

Ratliff

Byron Foulger

Harris

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Crew

Louis R. Loeffler

Editor

Lyle R. Wheeler

Art Direction

Joseph LaShelle

Director of Photography

Walter M. Scott

Set Decoration

Alex North

Music

E. Clayton Ward

Sound

William Faulkner

Writer

Martin Ritt

Director

Louis R. Loeffler

Editor

Lyle R. Wheeler

Art Direction

Joseph LaShelle

Director of Photography

Walter M. Scott

Set Decoration

Alex North

Music

E. Clayton Ward

Sound

William Faulkner

Writer

Martin Ritt

Director

Ben Nye

Makeup Artist

Helen Turpin

Hairstylist

Harry M. Leonard

Sound

Jerry Wald

Producer

Irving Ravetch

Writer

Eli Benneche

Set Decoration

Maurice Ransford

Art Direction

Adele Palmer

Costume Design

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