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Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 nominations total
Rebecca Welles
- Lucinda Cabot
- (as Rebecca Wells)
Edna Bennett
- Housewife Gossip
- (uncredited)
Florine Carlan
- Young Girl
- (uncredited)
Robert Cass
- Seth
- (uncredited)
- …
Vera Denham
- Farm Woman
- (uncredited)
Harvey B. Dunn
- Farmer
- (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
- Old Farmer
- (uncredited)
Jamie Forster
- Farmer
- (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt
- Men
- (uncredited)
Sandra Harrison
- Young Girl
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe original 1924 Broadway production made Walter Huston a Broadway star; he was 40 years old, playing a septuagenarian. He was later in several more Eugene O'Neill plays.
- GoofsIn several outdoor scenes, people cast two (or more) shadows showing that there are two light sources.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biography: Sophia Loren: Actress Italian Style (1997)
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Sophia Loren comes to Hollywood...results are mixed
After a couple of studio films shot on location, Italian actress and sex symbol Sophia Loren finally made it onto Hollywood soil for this uneven, uncertain melodrama adapted from Eugene O'Neill's controversial play. A tyrannical New England farmer (Burl Ives), who apparently worked his past two wives to death, brings home a new wife to meet his sons--two of whom take off for California and the third (Anthony Perkins) who stays and eventually falls in love with the Mrs. The performers seem to be at a mismatch with this very strange material; though they try hard, the heavy prose and illogical situations would be enough to defeat anybody. The character motivations aren't always clear, not helped by the narrative which, at a crucial point, jumps ahead in time and nearly alienates the audience. Ives gives a full-throttle, blustery-old-windbag performance which infuses the scenario with a prickly tension (and the screenplay surprisingly never scores points against him), but glinty-eyed Loren is a bit out of her depth. Still, she survives the absurd final reel with her dignity intact, while the picture ends on such a dour note that the overall impression is one of supreme dissatisfaction. Daniel L. Fapp won an Oscar nomination for his handsome (if overlit) photography; Delbert Mann directed in an awkward and stagy fashion. **1/2 from ****
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- Jun 18, 2008
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- Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms
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- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Desire Under the Elms (1958) officially released in Canada in English?
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