The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer

115 mins | Drama, Romance | May 17, 1958

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.

The Long, Hot Summer

115 mins | Drama, Romance | May 17, 1958

The Long, Hot Summer
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers 20th Century Fox, Jerry Wald Productions
Original title The Long, Hot Summer
Directors Eli Dunn, Martin Ritt
Writers Sammy Cahn, Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch, William Faulkner

Cast

Paul Newman

as Ben Quick

Joanne Woodward

as Clara Varner

Anthony Franciosa

as Jody Varner

Orson Welles

as Will Varner

Lee Remick

as Eula Varner

Angela Lansbury

as Minnie Littlejohn

Richard Anderson

as Alan Stewart

Sarah Marshall

as Agnes Stewart

Mabel Albertson

as Elizabeth Stewart

J. Pat O'Malley

as Ratliff

Bill Walker

as Lucius

Robert Adler

as Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

Val Avery

as Wilk (uncredited)

Jim Brandt

as Linus Olds (uncredited)

Brian Corcoran

as Harry Peabody (uncredited)

Lee Erickson

as Tom Shortly (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

as Harris (uncredited)

I. Stanford Jolley

as Houston (uncredited)

Nicholas King

as John Fisher (uncredited)

Ralph Reed

as J. V. Bookright (uncredited)

Steve Widders

as Buddy Peabody (uncredited)