Still feeling virusy, PEYTON PLACE ticked all the required boxes: a long, colour, 50s or 60s melodrama (most of the Sirks were too familiar).
Lana Turner, Lee Phillips, Lloyd Nolan (doctor), Arthur Kennedy (the villain), Russ Tamblyn, Terry Moore ('fast' girl), Hope Lange (villain's daughter), Diane Varsi (Lana's daughter).
Professional ph. by William Mellor (though feel small problems in transfer of Cinemascope print).
mus. Franz Wasserman
Moves along briskly in hands of director former editor. Rape scene powerful. Liked soldier gag "I dug a foxhole so deep it was almost desertion".
They could have simply told mother to check their wet bathing suits.
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