The Long Hot Summer

Dining with William Faulkner’s Mississippi patriarch Varner (Orson Welles) are Alan (Richard Anderson), suitor to daughter Clara (Joanne Woodward), son Jody (Anthony Franciosa), his wife Eula (Lee Remick), and hired-hand Ben (Paul Newman), brought in to stir things up, in The Long, Hot Summer, 1958.

Orson Welles as Will Varner, the titanic head of the family that dominates William Faulkner’s fictional Frenchman’s Bend, Mississippi, visits his new tenant farmer, Ben Quick (Paul Newman), making clear he knows of his reputation, in Martin Ritt’s The Long, Hot Summer, 1958.

Drifter Ben (Paul Newman) visits the Varners, who own everything in Frenchman’s Bend, Mississippi, in this case Jody (Tony Franciosa), who doesn’t know his wife (Lee Remick) and sister (Joanne Woodward) gave him a ride that morning, in The Long, Hot Summer, 1958.