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About
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Box Office
$3.5M
Budget
$1.6M
Return
2.2x
DVD / Blu-ray
May 20, 2003
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1
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Jerry Wald Productions, 20th Century Fox
Keywords
based on novel or book
small town
arranged marriage
host family
family relationships
arson
sexual tension
class differences
false accusations
arsonist
sexual repression
overbearing father
stranger
based on short story
sharecropper
general store
father son conflict
summertime
father son relationship
father daughter relationship
southern gothic
seducer
charming man
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Cast
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Paul Newman
Ben Quick
J
Joanne Woodward
Clara Varner
A
Anthony Franciosa
Jody Varner
O
Orson Welles
Will Varner
L
Lee Remick
Eula Varner
A
Angela Lansbury
Minnie Littlejohn
R
Richard Anderson
Alan Stewart
S
Sarah Marshall
Agnes Stewart
M
Mabel Albertson
Elizabeth Stewart
J
J. Pat O'Malley
Ratliff
B
Bill Walker
Lucius
R
Robert Adler
Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
V
Val Avery
Wilk (uncredited)
B
Brian Corcoran
Harry Peabody (uncredited)
L
Lee Erickson
Tom Shortly (uncredited)
B
Byron Foulger
Harris (uncredited)
I
I. Stanford Jolley
Houston (uncredited)
N
Nicholas King
John Fisher (uncredited)
R
Ralph Reed
J. V. Bookright (uncredited)
A
Arthur Tovey
Man at Auction (uncredited)
