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The Long, Hot Summer

The people of Faulkner...the language of Faulkner...the world of Faulkner!

1958 · NR · 1h 55m

Directed by Martin Ritt

7.0

TMDB audience score
234 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

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Cast

  • 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
    Elizabeth Stewart

  • J. Pat O'Malley
    Ratliff

  • Bill Walker
    Lucius

  • Robert Adler
    Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

  • Val Avery
    Wilk (uncredited)

  • Jim Brandt
    Linus Olds (uncredited)

  • Brian Corcoran
    Harry Peabody (uncredited)

  • Lee Erickson
    Tom Shortly (uncredited)

  • Byron Foulger
    Harris (uncredited)

  • I. Stanford Jolley
    Houston (uncredited)