Watch: Summer and Smoke 1961 123movies, Full Movie Online – Since childhood, spinster Alma Winemiller has loved handsome young Dr. John Buchanan, Jr.. But John has fallen hard for Rosa Zacharias, the town’s sultry vamp, and descends into a seamy nightlife while ignoring Alma’s dreams of romance and possible marriage..
Plot: In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
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Hardly the best of Williams
Hardly the best of Tennessee Williams and this film version does nothing to improve on it. The director was Peter Glenville who may have been highly proficient on stage but who had no real idea of what made good cinema and this is turgid at best. Geraldine Page may have been ideally suited to the role of the repressed spinster Alma but her tremulous, hesitant and, of course, highly mannered performance is just annoying and you know something is askew when the usually wooden Laurence Harvey more than manages to hold his own against her. He’s the good-for-nothing young doctor who seduces her and whose body just drives her wild with desire as a certain Miss Bowles might say. As the local tramp Rita Moreno barely gets a look in though Una Merkel makes a brave stab at playing Page’s dotty mother, (she and Page were both Oscar-nominated). Williams later revised the piece under the title “Eccentricities of a Nightingale” which was filmed for television with Blythe Danner and Frank Langella.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 58 min (118 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Peter Glenville
Writer Tennessee Williams, James Poe, Meade Roberts
Actors Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 4 wins & 10 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm