This is such a great movie yet….
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billyed — 20 years ago(September 30, 2005 03:10 PM)
Lee was incredibly gorgeous. I'd never seen anything she'd done beforeOmen ond perhaps Sometimes a Great Notion.
Watch Lee Remick in
Days of Wine and Roses
with Jack Lemmon. She'll knock your socks off!!
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jasonbourneagain — 20 years ago(October 10, 2005 08:03 AM)
Will have to check out Days of Wine and Roses. First movie I saw a young Lee Remick in was this one and Baby the Rain Must Fall. Both hot performances with emphasis on hot.
Put Dirty Harry in the IMDB top 250!
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pdmh48 — 20 years ago(March 04, 2006 07:51 PM)
One of my favorite Lee Remick movies is "Experiment in Terror" made in 1962, co-starring Glenn Ford with Blake Edwards doing the best job of directing of his career. The Henry Mancini score is a classic! I don't want to give anything away- but check out Ross Martin as Red. he should have won the Oscar-or at least been nominated! Enjoy!
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au561 — 20 years ago(September 15, 2005 05:27 PM)
I love this movie. I have to watch it whenever it's on. The story, the characters, the town, everything works. The dialogue is some of the best I've ever heard. My favorite from Newman's Hollywood Pretty Boy years. They cast him for his looks and got a very good Actor as well. TLHS not sappy tear-jerker
or melodrama like some of his others from the same period. Now about the rest of the cast.Love'em all exceptTony Franciosa. Just flat out misscast.
No matter how many times I see him in TLHS, I just can't buy anything he says or does. No style, no substance, bad accent. Totally over the top line delivery. And he just doesn't look like a VARNER. Dennis Hopper or Earl Holliman at that time would have been much better choices. Check out Hopper in GIANT and Holliman in THE RAINMAKER and see what you think. -
lpaul01 — 20 years ago(September 18, 2005 01:00 AM)
I am so very pleased that all of you love this film - and its incredible cast! I saw this film when it first came out! LOL How long ago is that? I must have been in my early teens, and though I didn't quite understand the sexual tension, on the other hand, I knew that I wanted to marry Paul Newman when I grew up, unfortunately, he was already taken. This film, and Paul, have been a favourite of mine every since.
It's a shame about Franciosa he should have been oozing testosterone with all that Italian-ness, buthe never appealed to me either then or now! I agree, Dennis Hopper what a great choice for that part! However, there are a myriad of films where I have forgetten the co-star but I have never forgotten Franciosa was in it! Perhaps we are both doing him a disservice!
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rmb6687 — 20 years ago(September 20, 2005 12:09 AM)
Woohoo!!! Wow, this boars is way more active than I would have ever expected since it was pretty much dead before.
I really like lee remick too and it completely passed me that she was the mother in the omen. She was very pretty, but since i am a heterosexual woman, there is no way i can deny that Paul newman was on sexy man in that movie. But i am just repeatign myself. I need to see those movies that other posters suggested.
I am not sure if anyone mentioned Paris Blues, which is another Newman/Woodward movie that isn't as good as Long Hot Summer but entertaining nonetheless. It is in black and white and also stars Sidney Portier. He ans Newman are struggling american musicians in paris. Woodward and her friend go to paris, meet the two guys and well, the inevitable happens.
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billyed — 20 years ago(September 30, 2005 03:00 PM)
.Tony Franciosa. Just flat out misscast.
No matter how many times I see him in TLHS, I just can't buy anything he says or does. No style, no substance, bad accent. Totally over the top line delivery. And he just doesn't look like a VARNER
I thought Tony was perfect for the part. No, he didn't look like a Varner, but I think he had a different mother than Clara did. Remember the conversation he had with his father one morning outside, after Will gave the job to Ben at the store?
Jodie said, "Am I your blood son or aren't I?" Will says, "Let's not get into THAT. You were born to me". And Jodie was younger than Clara.
An interesting factAgnes, the friend of Clara's, was played by Sarah Marshall. She is the daughter of the distinguised actor Herbert Marshall and his actress wife Edna Best.
TLHS is a compilation of 3 stories by William Faulkner.."Barn Burning", "The Spotted Horses" and "The Hamlet".
The great Jimmie Rodgers sang the theme song.
It was filmed in Baton Rouge, LA.
IMO, this was probably Newman's and Woodward's best film together. "From the Terrace", I didn't care for that much. "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge" was very good and made when they were quite a bit older.
Hopper and Holliman were both in "Giant"..they wouldn't have been right for TLHS, IMO.
Newman and Woodward were not married when they made this film. I think this film is where they met.
One of my favorite films and I watch it whenever it's onlike today!
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loveoldmovies22 — 19 years ago(March 01, 2007 09:53 AM)
I never thought Jody (Tony) looked that out of place because they had Orson Welles wearing a fake nose and the dark makeup.
It's weird about who's is older Clara or Jody. At one point Eula talks about having a pillow fight with "your baby brother" to Clara. Later, however, Clara is trying to console Jody and talks about how when children teased her she got her "big brother" to get them to quit, that she wouldn't have survived her girlhood without him. Also Clara is supposed to be 23 and Jody looks older. -
pdmh48 — 20 years ago(March 04, 2006 07:59 PM)
Wow! I thought I was the only person in the world who liked this series. It was great! Even as a seventh-grader,I was resigned to the fact that whatever series I liked would most surely be canceled by the networks. And of course it was.
I remember Nancy Malone saying "Stay away from him, Papa?" as if it were the most impossible thing in the world.(Of course, it was.)As a young girl, I loved Roy Thinnes. It was great seeing him on "The X Files." -
mariahfan-1 — 17 years ago(January 20, 2009 09:07 AM)
to kindly correct you billyed this film isn't where Newman and Woodward originally met the 1953 broadway production of picnic is it's where they were already living together and engadged to be married
"You know where I was? Taking a bath in champagne" Mimi from A New Kind Of Love