La lunga estate calda

Titolo originale: The Long, Hot Summer
Regia: Martin Ritt |
Anno: 1958
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: small town | based on novel or book | arranged marriage | host family | family relationships | sexual tension | arson | class differences | false accusations | arsonist | sexual repression | overbearing father | stranger | based on short story | sharecropper | general store | father son conflict | summertime | father son relationship | father daughter relationship | southern gothic | seducer | charming man |
Cast: Paul Newman | Joanne Woodward | Anthony Franciosa | Orson Welles | Lee Remick | Angela Lansbury | Richard Anderson | Sarah Marshall | Mabel Albertson | J. Pat O'Malley | Bill Walker | Robert Adler | Val Avery | Jim Brandt | Brian Corcoran | Lee Erickson | Byron Foulger | I. Stanford Jolley | Nicholas King | Ralph Reed | Steve Widders | Arthur Tovey | Helen Wallace |

Nel profondo Sud afoso degli Stati Uniti, arriva Ben Quick, un piantagrane, vagabondo e faccia da schiaffi con la fama di piromane. Va a lavorare per Willy Varner, proprietario terriero che domina tutti con pugno di ferro, dai familiari al paese e ha una relazione con Minnie. Willy intuisce che il nuovo arrivato ha una grande personalità e di trovarsi di fronte a un suo pari. La figlia di Willy, Clara, non ne è entusiasta all'inizio, ma con il tempo apprezza Ben sempre più.

Frasi

Ben: If you're scared of me, mister, why don't you [...] D
Auctioneer: This is gonna be about the most expens [...] D
Eula Varner: If I'm not mistaken, that's my master [...] D
Clara: You're too much like my father to suit me, [...] D
Clara: Mr. Quick, I am a human being. Do you know [...] D
Eula: Why, you sound free as a bird. Don't he soun [...] D
Eula: I went shopping in those Memphis stores this [...] D
Will Varner: They don't have to see her. They can [...] D
Wilk: That Ben Quick, he sure is a comer. Harris: [...] D
Will Varner: You got hellfire and damnation in you [...] D
Passerby: I wouldn't fool with them folks, boy. I' [...] D
Ben: I respect him. I admire his manners and I adm [...] D
Ben: You look like two butterflies lit out on the [...] D
Ben: [to Clara] Never say never. D
Ben: Well, that's all right. I'm a quiet-living ma [...] D
Ben: Well, I'll be damned. Will Varner: More than [...] D
Will Varner: I got influence. I'll dog you, boy, w [...] D
Will Varner: She has quality, quality. Which is as [...] D
Will Varner: I was young myself once. I used to hi [...] D
Lucius: Mister, you sure do leave your calling car [...] D
Clara: I've spent my whole life around men who pus [...] D
Will Varner: Can't teach an old dog new tricks, bu [...] D
[to Jody Varner] Will Varner: I put down a big fo [...] D
Agnes Stewart: I'd give something to know what goe [...] D
Minnie Littlejohn: I made plans, Will, matrimonial [...] D
Clara: Well don't throw in the towel yet, Agnes, d [...] D
Alan Stewart: My people have stood off Indians, Ya [...] D
Minnie Littlejohn: Will Varner, I heard you was in [...] D
Ben: Summertime, and the livin' is easy. D
Ben: That's a long time to live in one place. Ala [...] D
Agnes Stewart: Why aren't there enough men to go a [...] D
Ben: [a group of men approaching with hostile inte [...] D
Will Varner: I've been watching you. I like your p [...] D
Agnes Stewart: [to Clara] I'd give something to kn [...] D
Clara: Barn burner! D
Ben: All right then, run, lady, and you keep on ru [...] D
Will Varner: Listen, I'm gonna get me some man in [...] D
Will Varner: Do you know what Quick means in this [...] D
Ben: Put them things down, Miss Clara, 'cause I'm [...] D
[Minnie Littlejohn proposing marriage to Will Varn [...] D
Ben: I live single. D
Ben: The world belongs to the meat eaters, Miss Cl [...] D
Ben Quick: What happens if a federal man comes by? [...] D
Ben: Miss Clara, you slam the door in a man's face [...] D
Justice of the Peace: A barn-burner's the meanest, [...] D
Will Varner: Give him time. A penny on the waters [...] D
Ben: Life's very long and full of salesmanship, Mi [...] D
Ben Quick: You're old enough to know that and I'm [...] D
Ben: Get out of character, lady. Come on, get way [...] D
Ben: Yes or no, mister. Ain't no in between. D
Clara: You are barking up the wrong girl, Mr. Quic [...] D
Will Varner: The man that built this place, his na [...] D
Will Varner: I'm gonna crawl over them books like [...] D
Will Varner: I get preached to on Sundays Ben: I [...] D
Will Varner: Thousands of acres out there. Million [...] D
Ben: I can see my white shirt and my black tie and [...] D