Review of Hot Spell

Hot Spell (1958)
A Memorable Performance by Shirley Booth
26 February 2002
Warning: Spoilers
I saw this film about 20 years ago and never forgot it. It was a story about a devoted housewife played by Shirley Booth, doting on her unfaithful husband played by Anthony Quinn. Her children witness their father meeting with another woman and try to keep it from their mother until one day, he leaves home with the other woman only to be killed together in a car crash. His poor wife wants him to be buried in the Bayou country where they lived when they were first married, because she reminisces about how happy they were living there, only to find that when they all arrive in Louisiana with his body on the train, that the little house and scenes from her memory where they lived were very ordinary. It was just her memories that made it more than they were. I think I am telling it right from my recollection. It was a sad story of a lonely housewife living in her fantasy of a past. I wish I could find this film somewhere.
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