{"id":74665,"date":"2021-08-01T19:51:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T02:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=74665"},"modified":"2021-08-01T19:51:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T02:51:42","slug":"long-hot-summer-the-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=74665","title":{"rendered":"Long, Hot Summer, The (1958)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Where&#8217;s my crop? What follows me?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Poster-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-74666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Poster-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Poster-667x1024.png 667w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Poster-176x270.png 176w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Poster.png 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA domineering southern patriarch (Orson Welles) &#8212; whose mistress (Angela Lansbury) bugs him to marry her &#8212; pressures his son (Anthony Franciosa) and daughter-in-law (Lee Remick) to start having children, and his daughter (Joanne Woodward) to finally settle on a husband &#8212; either her long-time local crush (Richard Anderson) or a poor but handsome young &#8220;barn burner&#8221; (Paul Newman) who&#8217;s come to live and work on their land.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angela Lansbury Films<\/li>\n<li>Deep South<\/li>\n<li>Father and Child<\/li>\n<li>Joanne Woodward Films<\/li>\n<li>Lee Remick Films<\/li>\n<li>Martin Ritt Films<\/li>\n<li>Orson Welles Films<\/li>\n<li>Paul Newman Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nFormerly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Ritt\">blacklisted director Martin Ritt<\/a> helmed this sweaty southern drama about sex, class, and progeny, based on several short stories by William Faulkner and clearly aiming for a Tennessee Williams-esque vibe. Welles &#8212; playing obese patriarch Will Varner &#8212; sports distractingly awful make-up: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles3-1024x438.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles3-1024x438.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles3-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles3-128x55.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles3-768x328.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles3-1536x656.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles3-604x258.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles3.png 1809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but is still a powerhouse whenever he&#8217;s on screen. (Has any other character in the movies so openly expressed his desire for heirs &#8212; lots and lots of them? The screenplay is simply riddled with quotes like the following: &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna get me some man in the Varner family, some good strong strappin&#8217; man Varners. That&#8217;s what I want, Varners and more Varners. Yeah, more Varners still. Enough Varners to infest the countryside.&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Newman once again <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=74249\">proves my assertion<\/a> that there may be no such thing as selecting a particular moment when he was at his hunkiest on screen: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman-Chest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman-Chest-1024x445.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman-Chest-1024x445.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman-Chest-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman-Chest-128x56.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman-Chest-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman-Chest-1536x668.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman-Chest-604x263.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman-Chest.png 1815w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and it was after co-starring with her in this film that Newman married his wife of 50 years (Joanne Woodward), who makes a convincingly sassy yet grounded sparring partner for both Welles and Newman (no small feat): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward-1024x438.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward-1024x438.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward-128x55.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward-1536x657.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward-604x258.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward.png 1811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Woodward&#8217;s on-screen brother, Anthony Franciosa &#8212; best known for his breakthrough role as Polo in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=4291\"><em>A Hatful of Rain<\/em> (1957)<\/a> &#8212; is overpowered by those around him (perhaps appropriately so): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa2-1024x434.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa2-1024x434.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa2-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa2-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa2-768x325.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa2-1536x651.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa2-604x256.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa2.png 1829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; while Woodward&#8217;s would-be love interest (Anderson) &#8212; a mamma&#8217;s boy referred to as a &#8220;sissy&#8221; &#8212; similarly lacks spark: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Anderson2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Anderson2-1024x437.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Anderson2-1024x437.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Anderson2-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Anderson2-128x55.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Anderson2-768x327.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Anderson2-1536x655.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Anderson2-604x258.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Anderson2.png 1827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>(Newman describes Anderson &#8212; only thinly veiled as homosexual &#8212; to Woodward thusly: &#8220;If you&#8217;re saving it all for him honey, you&#8217;ve got your account in the wrong bank.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>This is really Welles&#8217;, Newman&#8217;s, and Woodward&#8217;s show, with everyone else &#8212; including gorgeous young Lee Remick: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Remick.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Remick-1024x433.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Remick-1024x433.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Remick-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Remick-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Remick-768x325.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Remick-1536x649.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Remick-604x255.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Remick.png 1829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and forthright Lansbury: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Lansbury.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Lansbury-1024x440.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Lansbury-1024x440.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Lansbury-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Lansbury-128x55.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Lansbury-768x330.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Lansbury-1536x660.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Lansbury-604x260.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Lansbury.png 1821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; simply along for the ride. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Newman as Ben Quick<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman2-1024x433.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman2-1024x433.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman2-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman2-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman2-768x325.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman2-1536x649.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman2-604x255.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Newman2.png 1819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Joanne Woodward as Clara Varner<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward3-1024x433.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"271\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward3-1024x433.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward3-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward3-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward3-768x325.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward3-1536x650.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward3-604x255.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Woodward3.png 1837w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Orson Welles as Will Varner<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles-1024x441.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles-1024x441.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles-128x55.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles-768x330.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles-1536x661.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles-604x260.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Welles.png 1815w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Joseph LaShelle&#8217;s CinemaScope cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa-Woodward-Remick.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa-Woodward-Remick-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa-Woodward-Remick-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa-Woodward-Remick-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa-Woodward-Remick-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa-Woodward-Remick-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa-Woodward-Remick-1536x652.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa-Woodward-Remick-604x256.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Long-Hot-Summer-Franciosa-Woodward-Remick.png 1821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though fans of the main stars will likely be curious to check it out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0051878\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s835hot.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=10677&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1958\/04\/04\/archives\/article-3-no-title-the-screen-the-long-hot-summer-new-feature-at.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OdBgEN2xuZc\">Tired Old Queen at the Movies Video Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Where&#8217;s my crop? What follows me?&#8221; Synopsis: A domineering southern patriarch (Orson Welles) &#8212; whose mistress (Angela Lansbury) bugs him to marry her &#8212; pressures his son (Anthony Franciosa) and daughter-in-law (Lee Remick) to start having children, and his daughter (Joanne Woodward) to finally settle on a husband &#8212; either her long-time local crush (Richard Anderson) or a poor but handsome young &#8220;barn burner&#8221; (Paul Newman) who&#8217;s come to live and work on their land. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=74665\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74665"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74690,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74665\/revisions\/74690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}