Summer Storm
Don't Go Near This Woman! Nothing So Beautiful Was Ever So Deadly!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 20, 2009
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: Kit Parker Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Linda Darnell, Anna Lee, Edward Everett Horton, Hugo Haas & George Sanders | |
Directed by | Douglas Sirk | |
Screenwriting by | Douglas Sirk, Rowland Leigh & Robert Thoeren | |
Composition by | Karl Hajos | |
Director of Photography: | Archie Stout, Louis Clyde Stoumen & Eugen Schüfftan |
Entertainment Reviews:
25%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 33
George Sanders is superb as a weak, corrupt judge facing both his past and the specter of the revolution, and Edward Everett Horton contributes an extraordinary dramatic turn as a provincial count.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: B --
None of the characters were likable, but the tragic story is well-executed by the talented director and Sanders and Darnell give fine performances.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
SUMMER STORM is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's THE SHOOTING PARTY. Linda Darnell stars as the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged Russian civil servant (Hugo Haas). Darnell becomes the object of the affections of her husband's employer, a lecherous count (Edward Everett Horton). The girl in turn is enamored of a provincial judge (George Sanders). At first, all flirtations are playful and harmless, but the judge takes Darnell so seriously that he ends up killing her in a jealous rage. Her husband is blamed for the crime, but the Count gets his comeuppance during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution (which didn't figure into the original Chekhov story, inasmuch as the author died in 1904). The big surprise in this is not that it works as well as it does, but that it features comic actor Edward Everett Horton in a straight, almost unsympathetic role, which he underplays beautifully.
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- Sales Rank: 44,770
- UPC: 089859060724
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