The Long, Hot Summer
“The people of Faulkner...the language of Faulkner...the world of Faulkner!”
19581h 55mDrama
Released
May 17, 1958
TMDB Score
70% match · 231 votes
Loading VidSrc…
About the Movie
Synopsis
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
DirectorMartin Ritt
- Released
- May 17, 1958
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $1.6M
- Box office
- $3.5M
- Studios
- Jerry Wald Productions, 20th Century Fox
Top Billed 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)
More Like This
Fahrenheit 451
71% match1966Film
The Judge
73% match2014Film
Homestead
65% match2024Film
Train Dreams
73% match2025Film
Intrusion
60% match2021Film
To Kill a Mockingbird
80% match1962Film
The Glass Castle
71% match2017Film
Agatha and the Truth of Murder
64% match2018Film
Dad
64% match1989Film
Losing Isaiah
65% match1995Film
House of Strangers
70% match1949Film
Wildlife
66% match2018Film