Peyton Place
by Mark Robson
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Actor: Arthur Kennedy, Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Russ TamblynDirector: Mark Robson
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
Editor: David Bretherton
Producer: Jerry Wald
Writer: Grace Metalious
Writer: John Michael Hayes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 157 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Peyton Place
DVD Review: old movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best movies ever. It has all of life's issues wrapped up in a time where you wouldn't think those issues existed.DVD Review: Peyton Place
Summary: 5 Stars
This happens to be one of my favorite movies. I think it is great and I loved watching it. It just brings me to a period of time when I was younger.DVD Review: All sorts of sudsy greatness...
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, this film is not a lot of things when you consider the time period we live in today, but in the 50's this film was prime for saucy debate. As a film, I think that it holds up very well, even if that is not a popular opinion. A lot of people I talk to consider this outdated and overacted and overrated, but personally I relish in every minute of this big screen soap. From the acting to the screenplay to the films expert pacing, `Peyton Place' is a delicious treat for the movie lover.
It's scandalous, but in all the right ways.
The film follows the intersecting lives of members of a New England town as controversy and scandal pop their heads around every corner. Allison MacKenzie wants to be a writer, but she struggles to find her voice amidst many recognizable demons. Her best friend suffers at the hand of a drunk and oppressive step-father. Her mother struggles to find herself and love in a town almost too quiet and too close for its own good. Add to that turmoil within the school, with boys and with...murder, and you have a story that is almost too big for a mere movie but that unfolds with such delicacy and such control that it NEVER feels rushed and it NEVER feels like surface treatment.
I, for one, feel that the majority of the acting is spot on and still stands up even today. This movie BELONGS to Lana Turner, who just steams her way through each scene with such sultry conviction. I love the way she just dominates each and every emotion her character has, delivering such strength even in the midst of weakness. Hope Lange is also stunning here, and I don't mean her looks (although she was a very beautiful woman). She has a firm grasp on her characters vulnerable situation and manages to come alive in the most intimate and sincere of times. I also love Lloyd Nolan and Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock. I felt that they all really sunk into their supporting roles and just soared in this ensemble masterpiece.
The lead role, which undoubtedly goes to Diane Varsi, is a little stale to me. She easily gets swallowed up by the actors around her. She doesn't do a `bad' job, but she didn't have the strength to carry the film. It's no wonder to me that Turner was nominated as Best Lead Actress at the Oscars and NOT Varsi. The only other sour part came from Lee Philips who was just kind of one note and rather boring to me...but it's a small glitch in an outstanding film.
Yes, I love `Peyton Place'. It's so utterly palpable in all its audaciousness and I just can't get enough of it. Mark Robson's direction was key to making this film as easily digestible as it was, for he could have easily fallen into making this campy (ala' `The Valley of the Dolls') but instead he manages to create and control a tense atmosphere that adds weight to the films authenticity. John Michael Hayes screenplay may play down some of the scandal in Grace Metalious's novel, but it never takes away from the story's intrigue...
...in fact, it may even add to it.
DVD Review: TURNER
Summary: 4 Stars
Lana Turner was superb in this classic. SHE was hot, hot, hot. The TV series of Peyton Place was wonderful to watch, week to week. The series was similar to many current day soap operas...including our long time favorite...As The World Turns. Our kids and grandkids continue to watch ATWT on CBS at 2PM here in Florida...they are the 3rd and 4th generations of STICKS to watch...thanks in part to Lana Turner acting in the movie, Peyton Place.DVD Review: A big screen soap that does little to improve on the small screen variety
Summary: 3 Stars
The youngsters of a small town called Peyton Place chafe under the stifling conservatism and parochialism of their parents' generation.
The performances are stiff (with the exception of the always dependable Arthur Kennedy) and the narrative plods along from one contrived shock to the next, but I must admit it held my interest much of the time. In this film, you are never far away from a murder, an abortion, or a tragic misunderstanding. Franz Waxman composed an evocative score that often manages to communicate the longing and hopefulness of frustrated youth with little help from John Michael Hayes's screenplay. It amazes me that this film was nominated for nine Oscars, but my faith in the Academy is marginally restored by the fact that it lost in every category (although Kennedy may well have deserved a supporting actor award).
Description of Peyton Place
Peyton Place is the sensitive and poignant story of coming of age in a small New England village whose peaceful facade hides love and passion, scandal and hypocrisy.Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1957, Peyton Place has become synonymous with torrid soap opera. Though the novel by Grace Metalious is even more sensational, the movie provides plenty of tantalizing story turns--secrets, adultery, rape, bitter parents, frustrated teenagers, suicide, and murder. Multiple storylines deftly interweave: Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi), an ambitious young girl struggling with the neurotic fears of her mother (Lana Turner, in a career-reviving performance) and the neurotic fears of the boy she loves (Russ Tamblyn), while her best friend Selena Cross (Hope Lange) fights off the brutal advances of her drunken stepfather. The movie had to sanitize the novel's New England town in order to get some of the more unsavory plot turns past the censors; ironically, the glossy "normal" surface makes these events all the more shocking, paving the way for David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. --Bret Fetzer
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