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The Long, Hot Summer
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Runtime
115 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
11.96
Director
Martin Ritt
Writers
Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.

The Long, Hot Summer

1958 Rated NR · ⭐ 7.1 · Votes: 164
“The people of Faulkner...the language of Faulkner...the world of Faulkner!”
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.

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