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Summer and Smoke (1961)

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User Rating: 7.5/10 (299 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Peter Glenville
Writers:
James Poe (writer)
Meade Roberts (writer)
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Release Date:
April 1962 (Austria) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late. full summary | add synopsis
Plot Keywords:
Based On Play
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
An unforgettable performance! more

Cast

 (Complete credited cast)

Laurence Harvey ... John Buchanan, Jr

Geraldine Page ... Alma Winemiller

Rita Moreno ... Rosa Zacharias
Una Merkel ... Mrs. Winemiller
John McIntire ... Dr. Buchanan
Thomas Gomez ... Papa Zacharias
Pamela Tiffin ... Nellie Ewell

Malcolm Atterbury ... Rev. Winemiller
Lee Patrick ... Mrs. Ewell
Max Showalter ... Roger Doremus (as Casey Adams)
Earl Holliman ... Archie Kramer
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Additional Details

Runtime:
118 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
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Movie Connections:
Version of "Play of the Month: Summer and Smoke (#7.5)" (1972) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
An unforgettable performance!, 26 May 2003
Author: Greg Couture from Portland, Oregon

When this was released I quickly made my way to the Fox West Coast Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills, California during its first-run engagement. Advance reviews were quite positive but I was unprepared for the power and yet the delicacy of Geraldine Page's performance as Alma Winemiller. Although I was never a fan of Laurence Harvey, who was cast in so many top films of that era, he joined his fellow players in affording Miss Page some very solid support. Una Merkel and John McIntire were especially worthy of praise, Earl Holliman acquits himself manfully in a brief role in the chilling final sequence, and Pamela Tiffin was touchingly beautiful as a heedless young thing. However, Rita Moreno, who has since complained about all those "spitfire" roles with which she was saddled during her earlier Hollywood days, probably counts this appearance as one of those she'd prefer we forget. (But, parenthetically, she has more than reason to be grateful for a list of credits that had already included the lovely Tuptim in the mega-box office hit, "The King and I," an Academy Award for her supporting role in "West Side Story," resulting in a career that continues to this day, outlasting many of the top stars who had led the casts of her earliest film assignments.)

Peter Glenville's direction (whose filmography is notably sparse) marshalls his actors and the top-notch production values with aplomb, aided by one of Elmer Bernstein's best scores. The VHS version does not appear to be letterboxed, thus losing cinematographer Charles Lang, Jr.'s elegant Panavision framing, which was one of this film's handsomer attributes.

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