{"product_id":"the-long-hot-summer","title":"The Long, Hot Summer","description":"Amazon.com\n\nPaul Newman has his glorious youthful swagger in this southern-fried melodrama, which marked his first picture with Joanne Woodward (they married after shooting ended). The script is a melange of William Faulkner stories, although it appears more under the influence of Tennessee Williams and Picnic than the Nobel Prize winner. Drifter Newman catches the eye of schoolmarm Woodward and her father, a rural Mississippi bigshot (Orson Welles). This is not one of Welles's better moments; he appears to be conducting make-up experiments. There is some enjoyable flapdoodle along the way, in the Freud-meets-Gone with the Wind manner of '50s southern cooking, but the ending is embarrassingly compromised. The same production team would leave out the box-office concessions a few years later on Hud. A studly Newman justifies this description of his character: \"I wish I was Ben Quick. He's got the whole state of Mississippi to graze on.\" --Robert Horton\n\nProduct Description\n\nA Mississippi town boss pairs his daughter with a dangerous drifter. Directed by Martin Ritt. Based on Faulkner stories.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B00008MTW2\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B00008MTW2.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eBinding: DVD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41584361340986,"sku":"DBV.B00008MTW2.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B00008MTW2-0.jpg?v=1786246526","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-long-hot-summer","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}