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Uniform Title Long hot summer (Motion picture : 1958)
Title The Long, hot summer [videorecording] / Jerry Wald Productions, Inc., and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ; screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. ; directed by Martin Ritt.

Imprint Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2003?]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka DVD Collection  DVD365    ---  Available
Edition Widescreen ed.
Description 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Based on the novel by William Faulkner.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958.
Bonus features: AMC Backstory "Long Hot Summer"; Movie Tone News: The Long Hot Summer in World Premiere, a Louisiana Triumph"; theatrical trailer.
Credits Cinematography, Joseph LaShelle ; editing, Louis R. Loeffler ; sound, Harry M. Leonard, E. Clayton Ward.
Cast Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury.
Summary Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
Audience Not rated.
System Details DVD, stereo surround or mono, region 1.
Language English, Spanish, or French soundtracks with English and Spanish subtitles; closed captioned.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Mississippi -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Newman, Paul, 1925-2008.
Woodward, Joanne, 1930-
Franciosa, Anthony, 1928-2006.
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
Remick, Lee, 1935-1991.
Lansbury, Angela, 1925-2022.
Ravetch, Irving, 1920-2010.
Frank, Harriet.
Wald, Jerry, 1911-1962.
Ritt, Martin, 1914-1990.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Long hot summer.
Jerry Wald Productions.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
Standard No. 024543075530

 
    
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