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Summer and Smoke

Summer and Smoke (1961)

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Release Date: Nov 16, 1961 Wide

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Tennessee Williams' Broadway play Summer and Smoke (expanded from his one-act piece Eccentricities of a Nightingale) was brought to the screen by adaptors James Poe and Meade Roberts and director Peter Glenville. Geraldine Page repeats her stage role as minister's daughter Alma Winemiller, who lives a spinsterish existence in her WWI-era Mississippi home town. Though her hateful mother (Una Merkel) has nothing but nasty things to say about men, Alma carries a torch for her handsome next-door

Unrated, 1 hr. 58 min.

Drama, Classics

James Poe, Meade Roberts

May 30, 1991

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This screen version of Tennessee Williams's noted play is poorly directed (it' still theater), but it's well acted by Geraldine Page

June 5, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment
Emanuel Levy
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A no-frills package for a second-tier Tennessee Williams work, but the play's the thing.

November 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Bill Weber
Slant Magazine
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Too much old climactic symphony music. Makes the film a little overdramatic for my tastes.

July 28, 2010
RegulaOleCollegeStudent
Todd Evans

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