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Film · 1958 · Drama
The Long, Hot Summer
Directed by Martin Ritt
1958
★ 1.7 editorial score
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward fell in love making this and married before it opened: William Faulkner boiled down into one Mississippi town, and the heat is doing most of the acting.
“A steamy, Freudian tale of family intrigue set in the deep South, based on a compilation of stories by William Faulkner...he ending is an unconvincing cop out, but it can't spoil the film's compulsive dramatic tension.”
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