Streaming The Long, Hot Summer Online
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Streaming The Long, Hot Summer Online.
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Well now, what do we have here? It is nothing less than one of the best and sexiest southern fried dramas from the 1950’s. This adaptation of several works of William Faulkner is a tour de force for everyone eager. How lucky are we to have two huge films on southern family life starring Paul Newman reach out in 1958? This film is a attractive companion share to “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof”, a bit more upbeat than “Cat” but aloof tubby of sound and fury.
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As Ben Mercurial, Paul Newman ignites the cloak and fairly burns down half of Mississippi in the process with his unbelievable magnetism. He brings to Hasty all he as to have as an actor and creates one of his early memorable performances. Fair peer him as bare chested he hugs his pillow on the hot veranda while watching Joanne Woodward through a veil door sitting up in her bed trying to ignore him, or his breeze across the Varner yard early on in the film, his interactions with Orson Wells or Tony Franciosa. He is every move the “mean and dirty” barnburner everyone thinks he is. He is honest what the Varner family and Clara Varner in particular need to feed their respective fever dreams brought on by the heat of this particular August in the south.
Hitting her marks in a sizable performance is Joanne Woodward. She being a honest daughter of the South comes to the table with and extra barrel loaded. As Clara Varner she is both needy and steely, a magnolia ready to be plucked but at that same time tremulous that she will be passed over and left to wither on the vine. Her scene in the general store after closing time with Newman is impartial about one of the steamiest fancy scenes ever filmed this
side of “Picnic”. Miss Woodward here in this film is pure magic to see and in combination with Paul Newman the pair become an alchemy of fireworks and lightning bugs on a summers night.
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Adding to the handsome cast is Lee Remick, Tony Franciosa, the extraordinary Angela Lansbury and the equally and always impressive Orson Wells. I would go on about each of them but I consider it best to let them surprise you. That’s half the fun of the film.
The salvage by Alex North is memorable and one of his best. The cinematography by Joseph LeShelle captures the hazy heat of Mississippi. And Martin Ritt’s direction of all parties concerned is perfectly on target. Be determined to check some of his other collaborations with Newman, “Paris Blues”, “Hud” to mention only two.
Pour yourself a gargantuan sweet tea, kick off your shoes and inaugurate the veranda doors and let the plug of this long hot summer envelope you.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The TV-movie version of “The Long, Hot Summer” suffers from miscasting (Judith Ivey was passable, but unprejudiced, and I can’t resolve if Don Johnson’s attempt to maintain Paul Newman’s shoes represents touching bravery or misguided arrogance), abominable accents, and jarring anachronisms.
This film, the 1958 novel, leaves it in the dust. Newman and Woodward generate palpable heat, and Orson Welles–clammy, jowly, bullfrog-voiced, crudely vigorous–is unforgettable as a classically bullying, overbearing Southern patriarch. In difference to the pallid TV remake, it features a top cast whose work transcends the sometimes creaky melodrama of the residence. Nearly every white Southern archetype is brought to life: the brutish, domineering, castrating patriarch; the arch, charming, coyly seductive belle with hot pants; the aging good-time girl, simultaneously randy and prim, with her gaze on the prize of a rich widower; the hotheaded but dilapidated son and heir, goaded to jealousy by his seductive, flirtatious wife and utterly dominated by his father, whom he both adores and despises; the sharp-tongued archaic maid, smoldering with repressed fire, who honest needs a “valid man” to hold the spot of her suspiciously lukewarm long-term suitor; and, of course, the playful, charming, sexy, potentially risky outsider, spiritual heir to Rhett Butler, who gets both the community and the heroine in a lather. There’s even a lynch mob–chasing a white man, for a change.
Skip the TV-movie remake, which at best is a clunky imitation, in favor of the classic–if for no other reason than to glimpse Paul Newman, at the peak of his beauty, in an undershirt. If that’s not inducement enough, it’s also marvelously cast, scripted, acted, and directed, and it captures Southern family dynamics with humor, pathos, and wince-inducing accuracy. Florence King would be proud.
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