The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

Director
Martin Ritt

Main cast
Paul Newman; Joanne Woodward; Orson Welles; Lee Remick; Richard Anderson

Genres
Drama, Romance

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


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