The Long, Hot Summer
1958
- Réalisateur·rice
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Martin Ritt
- Scénariste
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Harriet Frank Jr.
Irving Ravetch
- Directeur·rice photo
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Joseph LaShelle
- Avec
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Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward
Anthony Franciosa
Orson Welles
Lee Remick
Angela Lansbury
Richard Anderson
Sarah Marshall
- Genres
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Drame, Comédie romantique
- Résumé
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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
