Peyton Place

Peyton Place
by Mark Robson

Peyton Place
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Actor: Arthur Kennedy, Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Russ Tamblyn
Director: 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-Video, 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

Movie Reviews of Peyton Place

Movie 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).

Summary 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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