The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

Martin Ritt

Escritores:

William Faulkner (stories) (novel "The Hamlet")
Irving Ravetch (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 mayo 1958 (Alemania Occidental)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

Adapted from the Sensational Novel by William Faulkner

Plot:

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge...

Plot Keywords:

Mistress | Confidence Man | Arson | Patriarch | Beautiful Woman

Premios:

1 win & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Debut for legendary screen team

Reparto

Paul Newman	...	Ben Quick
Joanne Woodward	...	Clara Varner
Anthony Franciosa	...	Jody Varner
Orson Welles	...	Will Varner
Lee Remick	...	Eula Varner
Angela Lansbury	...	Minnie Littlejohn
Richard Anderson	...	Alan Stewart
Sarah Marshall	...	Agnes Stewart
Mabel Albertson	...	Mrs. Stewart
J. Pat O'Malley	...	Ratliff
Bill Walker	...	Lucius (as William Walker)

También conocida como:

El largo y cálido verano (Spain) [es]
Un largo y ardiente verano (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

115 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) (Westrex Recording System) | Mono (35 mm optical prints)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | USA:Approved (certificate #18811) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Asphodel Plantation - 4626 Highway 68, Jackson, Louisiana, USA

Compañía:

Jerry Wald Productions

Trivialidades:

This film marks Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman's first cinematic collaboration.

Citas:

Sarah Marshall: I'd give something to know what goes on in my brother's temperature dreams. I know what goes on in mine.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Home Improvement: Reel Men (#3.15)" (1994)

Banda de Sonido:

The Long, Hot Summer

Debut for legendary screen team

The Long Hot Summer is chiefly noted for the fact that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward made their joint cinematic debut in this film. One of Hollywood's best personal and professional partnerships, Joanne had won a Best Actress Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve the year before and it took Paul thirty more years to match it for their mantelpiece in The Color of Money.

Based on some William Faulkner short stories, The Long Hot Summer commences when Joanne Woodward and Lee Remick, daughter and daughter-in-law of local patriarch Orson Welles give drifter Paul Newman a lift into town. Woodward's a repressed school teacher and Welles despairs of her finding a suitable match.

Because he started dirt poor and worked his way up to the top, Welles takes a liking to Newman and pushes, a little too hard for Newman and Woodward to team up. That's not sitting real well with Anthony Franciosa who is Welles's son and sees Newman displacing him in the family pecking order.

In fact my favorite in the film is Franciosa, he usually is in any film he's in. When he's on the screen, you don't pay attention to anyone else, not even Orson Welles.

Welles borrows a bit from Tennessee Williams's Big Daddy Pollitt from the Paul Newman film the year before, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. His Will Varner though is a bit softer around the edges, also lends itself more easily to caricature. I think the creators of The Dukes of Hazzard used Welles in The Long Hot Summer as their model for Boss Hogg.

In fact it's interesting to see the contrast in The Long Hot Summer and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. It's obvious to me that William Faulkner liked the people of Mississippi a whole lot more than the southerners that are in Tennessee Williams's work.

Almost fifty years later, The Long Hot Summer is still enjoyable viewing and still may be the best of Paul and Joanne's joint ventures.