Peyton Place
Summary:
Grace Metalious' once-notorious bestseller Peyton Place is given a lavish -- and necessarily toned-down -- film treatment in this deluxe 20th Century-Fox production. Set during WWII, the film concentrates on several denizens of the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place. Top-billed Lana Turner plays shopkeeper Constance McKenzie, who tries to make up for a p... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Lana Turner - (Constance MacKenzie)
Hope Lange - (Selena Cross)
Lee Philips - (Michael Rossi)
Lloyd Nolan - (Dr. Matthew Swain)
Arthur Kennedy - (Lucas Cross)
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Review:
The controversial, massively popular Peyton Place is a melodramatic soap opera of Herculean proportions. The filmmakers attempt to cram every gossipy degradation possible into the 157-minute running length, and, though the end results are actually less explicit than Grace Metalious' source novel, the film still caused quite a stir at the time... Continue >>
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