20th Century Fox (1958)
Drama
USA | English | Color | 01:57
Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs of him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family
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Paul Newman | Ben Quick |
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Joanne Woodward | Clara Varner |
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Anthony Franciosa | Jody Varner |
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Orson Welles | Will Varner |
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Lee Remick | Eula Varner |
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Angela Lansbury | Minnie Littlejohn |
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Richard Anderson | Alan Stewart |
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Sarah Marshall | Agnes Stewart |
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Mabel Albertson | Elizabeth Stewart |
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J. Pat O'Malley | Ratliff |
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Bill Walker | Lucius |
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Robert Adler | Ambulance Driver |
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Val Avery | Wilk |
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Abie Bain | Man at Auction |
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Oscar Blank | Man at Auction |
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Danny Borzage | Man at Auction |
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Jim Brandt | Linus Olds |
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Ella Mae Brown | Woman at Auction |
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Brian Corcoran | Harry Peabody |
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Lee Erickson | Tom Shortly |
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Byron Foulger | Harris |
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Joseph Glick | Man at Auction |
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Jimmie Horan | Man at Auction |
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Eugene Jackson | Waiter |
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Michael Jeffers | Man at Auction |
| Director | Martin Ritt |
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| Writer | William Faulkner, Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. | |
| Producer | Jerry Wald | |
| Musician | Alex North | |
| Photography | Joseph LaShelle | |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
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| Regions | Region 1 |