Peyton Place
 | Directed by Mark Robson Starring: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn 20th Century Fox, 1957, DVD Customer Rating: 71 reviews Recommend |
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Peyton Place is the sensitive and poignant story of coming of age in a small New England village whose peaceful facade hides love and passion, scandal and hypocrisy.
Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1957, Peyton Place has become synonymous with torrid soap opera. Though the novel by Grace Metalious is even more sensational, the movie provides plenty of tantalizing story turns — secrets, adultery, rape, bitter parents, frustrated teenagers, suicide, and murder. Multiple storylines deftly interweave: Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi), an ambitious young girl struggling with the neurotic fears of her mother (Lana Turner, in a career-reviving performance) and the neurotic fears of the boy she loves (Russ Tamblyn), while her best friend Selena Cross (Hope Lange) fights off the brutal advances of her drunken stepfather. The movie had to sanitize the novel's New England town in order to get some of the more unsavory plot turns past the censors; ironically, the glossy "normal" surface makes these events all the more shocking, paving the way for David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. — Bret Fetzer
Title: Peyton Place
Sales Rank: 8282 in DVD
Actor: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn
Director: Mark Robson
Studio: 20th Century Fox, 2004-03-02, Theatrical Release: 1957
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 2.35:1
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 157 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches, 0.18 pounds
- Peyton Place
- Payton Place is my all time favorite movie. Lana Turna was a beautiful lady; i always wanted to look like her, and act like her. I wished we could go back to the days that we could dress like that and not look stupid in other people eyes. If you dressed and acted like that now, people would think you're a freak. This… More reviews
- Lush setting, annoying plot
- I know the scandalous novel was highly sanitized for the screen but the scenery and over the top performances led by a very prim and proper Lana Turner make for an amusing journey back in time. Beautiful photography of coastal Maine. Not exactly a classic but not a bad way to spend a couple of hours. … More reviews
- old movie
- This is one of the best movies ever. It has all of life's issues wrapped up in a time where you wouldn't think those issues existed. More reviews
- Peyton Place
- This happens to be one of my favorite movies. I think it is great and I loved watching it. It just brings me to a period of time when I was younger.… More reviews
- All sorts of sudsy greatness...
- Yes, this film is not a lot of things when you consider the time period we live in today, but in the 50's this film was prime for saucy debate. As a film, I think that it holds up very well, even if that is not a popular opinion. A lot of people I talk to consider this outdated and overacted and overrated, but personally I relish in every minute… More reviews
