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8.1/10   730 votes
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Director:
Writers:
James Poe (writer)
Meade Roberts (writer)
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Release Date:
April 1962 (Austria) more
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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
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations more
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Jesse Eisenberg
 (From Interview Magazine. 26 October 2009, 11:07 PM, PDT)

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Geraldine Page was Outstanding more (18 total)

Cast

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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
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The original Broadway play "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams opened Oct. 6, 1948 at the Music Box Theatre and ran for 102 performances. Ray Walston was in the cast in a supporting role. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful.
Geraldine Page was Outstanding, 14 January 2008
8/10
Author: whpratt1 from United States

Enjoyed this dramatic love story which involves a girl named Alma Winemiller, (Geraldine Page) a pretty young gal who is a preacher's daughter and very straight laced. Alma grew up with the boy next door named John Buchanan Jr., (Laurence Harvey) and unknowing to herself she fell in love with him a very long time ago. Alma always looks out her window in order to see what John is doing and simply cannot stop watching his whereabouts in life. John's father is a medical doctor who sends John off to medical school and when he returns back home, Alma is all grown up and still has a heart throb for Johnny. However, John has changed and became a ladies man and is a wild guy who loves women and drinking. John finds a Spanish girlfriend named Rosa Zacharias, (Rita Moreno) and they are always making romantic love and living it up every weekend. Alma shows an interest in John and goes after him for a date and John decides to take her out on a date and finds out she is not willing to make love to him, so he calls her a cold fish and predicts she will become an old maid. Great film and excellent acting.

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