The Long, Hot Summer 1958 123movies

Watch: The Long, Hot Summer 1958 123movies, Full Movie Online – Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner (Orson Welles), in ill health, owns many businesses and property in Frenchman’s Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment, who he sees as not being able to carry on the Varner name in the style to which he has built around it. Son Jody (Anthony Francoisa) has no ambition and does not work, spending much of his time fooling around with his seductive wife, Eula (Lee Remick). He finds 23-year-old daughter Clara (Joanne Woodward) clever, but he feels she also wastes her time on more contemplative pursuits. While most of her contemporaries are married, Clara has been dating Alan Stewart (Richard Anderson), a genteel mama’s boy, for six years. Will would not mind Alan so much if he too thought Alan had a bit of a forceful man in him, which he could demonstrate by actually asking Clara to marry him. Conversely, Jody laments that nothing he does is ever good enough for his father, while Clara plain does not like the way he treats them. Into their lives comes Ben Quick (Paul Newman), who Jody hired while Will was hospitalized, to do some sharecropping on currently vacant land. Despite Will believing the unsubstantiated stories that Ben burned down someone’s barn as an act of vengeance, Will becomes to view Ben as the son he never had, as he is much the same mold. As such, Will does whatever he can to get Ben to be part of the family to carry on the Varner name the way Will wants it be, which means marrying Clara. Through the process, Clara may come to a realization about what she really wants in life, while Jody does whatever he can to retain his position in the family..
Plot: 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 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.
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	7.3/10 Votes: 11,332
	86% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 160 Popularity: 11.04 | TMDB

Reviews:

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.

The movie that got them together
For anyone who likes real-life Hollywood love stories, you won’t want to miss this one! Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Gable and Lombard, and thanks to The Long, Hot Summer, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward join the list.

While it isn’t the most romantic movie in the world, and in fact doesn’t usually come to mind when you think about cinematic love stories, it brought the two together during the ridiculously hot film set in Louisiana. Anyone who’s spent a summer in the South knows how sweltering it can be, and director Martin Ritt wanted the actors’ sweat to look authentic! The story is simple: an ambitious drifter sweet talks the boss’s daughter in order to move up in the world. The legacy is enduring, as Ma and Pa Newman have made more than their marks in the world.

If you want to watch the movie that brought them together, this is the one. If you’re looking for a good love story from the 1950s, this is not the one. Try Picnic or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof instead. The movie is a little slow at times, and a little wordy. And Joanne seriously needed to let her bangs grow!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Martin Ritt
Writer William Faulkner, Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
Actors Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints), Mono (35 mm optical prints) (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Bausch & Lomb Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm