THE FILM
FILM DIRECTOR: Vincente Minnelli
SCREENWRITER: Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
FILM STARS: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton , Everett Sloane, Luana Patten, Anne Seymour
COUNTRY: USA
THIS BOOK
AUTHOR: William Humphrey
TYPE: Novel
PUBLISHER: Pan
THIS EDITION PUBLISHED: 1960
COUNTRY: Great Britain
COVER: Paperback
THE ORIGINAL BOOK
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: As Above
YEAR FIRST PUBLISHED: 1958
ORIGINAL BOOK TITLE: The film title
NOTES
GENRE: Domestic Drama
WORDS: Southern Gothic melodrama? Peyton Place goes south with a dash of Flannery O’Connor. Perfect for Mitchum who is perfect in the title role. Apparently “husband and wife team Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch wrote the screenplay, making some key changes in Humphrey’s story to emphasize the core conflicts. They created the role of Mitchum’s illegitimate son and made his wife a desirable though bitter woman instead of the aging crone from the book. The writers also tried to capture the cadence of Southern speech and had written another family drama located in the South, The Long, Hot Summer. Minnelli would later call the screenplay “one of the few film scripts in which I didn’t change a word”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_from_the_Hill_(film)
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Pure 70s book exchange chic, Frank. Fantastic collection!
Richard, if my interest doesn’t lapse there is much more to come. I spent a lot of time in op shops and book exchanges. “Book Exchange” … that term is 70s retro chic in itself. All the book exchange’s are gone.
Did the Captain do any Calypso in the movie?
Ha ha ha …. no. Bob did the calypso LP at about the same time he made the film “Fire Down Below” (1957), set in the Caribbean. No singing here. Not by him nor by George Hamilton who also tried his hand at the same.