- Country: USA
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1958-05-18
- Director: Martin Ritt
- Writers: William Faulkner , Irving Ravetch , Harriet Frank Jr.
- Language: English
- Stars: Paul Newman , Joanne Woodward , Anthony Franciosa , Orson Welles (1915–1985) , Lee Remick , Angela Lansbury , Richard Anderson , Sarah Marshall , Mabel Albertson (1901–1982) , J. Pat O’Malley (1904–1985)
- Runtime: 115 min
- Awards: 2 wins & 4 nominations
- AKA: Долгое жаркое лето , Πόθοι στην κάψα του καλοκαιριού (Greece) , Hehkuva kesä (Finland) , Der lange heiße Sommer (Germany) , Flammende sommer (Norway) , The Long, Hot Summer (United States of America) , Lunga vară fierbinte (Romania) , Noche larga y febril (Uruguay, Eastern Republic of) , The Long, Hot Summer , O Mercador de Almas (Brazil) , Vara cea lungă și fierbinte (Romania) , Cehennem Sıcağı (Turkey) , The Long, Hot Summer (Canada) , El largo y cálido verano (Spain) , Der lange heiße Sommer , Un Largo Y Ardiente Verano (Argentina) , Den lange varme sommer (Denmark) , The Long, Hot Summer (United Kingdom) , The Long, Hot Summer (Australia) , Duas Vidas (Brazil) , Pitkä kuuma kesä (Finland) , Hosszú, forró nyár (Hungary) , La lunga estate calda (Italy) , 夏日春情 (China) , 長く熱い夜(1958) (Japan) , Les feux de l'été (Canada) , Μακρύ, καυτό καλοκαίρι (Greece) , Lång, het sommar (Sweden) , Les feux de l'été (France, French Republic) , Paixões Que Escaldam (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Un largo y ardiente verano (Venezuela) , Дългото горещо лято (Bulgaria) , Długie, gorące lato (Poland) , Dugo toplo ljeto , Ilga karšta vasara (Lithuania)
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt0051878
The Long, Hot Summer Cast · · · ALL
Martin Ritt
Director
Paul Newman
Ben Quick
Joanne Woodward
Clara Varner
Anthony Franciosa
Jody Varner
Orson Welles
(1915–1985)
Will Varner
Lee Remick
Eula Varner
Angela Lansbury
Minnie Littlejohn
Richard Anderson
Alan Stewart
Sarah Marshall
Agnes Stewart
Mabel Albertson
(1901–1982)
Elizabeth Stewart
J. Pat O’Malley
(1904–1985)
Ratliff
Bill Walker
Lucius
Robert Adler
Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Val Avery
Wilk (uncredited)
Brian Corcoran
Harry Peabody (uncredited)
Lee Erickson
Tom Shortly (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Harris (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Houston (uncredited)
Nicholas King
John Fisher (uncredited)
Ralph Reed
J. V. Bookright (uncredited)