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The Long, Hot Summer

Title
The Long, Hot Summer (2024)
The Long, Hot Summer
Year
2024
Catalog
Genre
IMDB
Rating
7.2 from 10 with total 112 votes
Premiere
1958-04-03
Runtime
115 minutes
Description
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
Cast

Paul Newman character Ben Quick

Joanne Woodward character Clara Varner

Anthony Franciosa character Jody Varner

Orson Welles character Will Varner

Lee Remick character Eula Varner

Angela Lansbury character Minnie Littlejohn

Richard Anderson character Alan Stewart

Sarah Marshall character Agnes Stewart

Mabel Albertson character Elizabeth Stewart

J. Pat O'Malley character Ratliff

Bill Walker character Lucius

Byron Foulger character Harris (uncredited)