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Director:
Douglas Sirk
Writers:
Anton Chekhov (novel)
Rowland Leigh (screenplay)
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Release Date:
14 July 1944 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
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Superb film version of Chekhov's 'The Shooting Party.' more (2 total)

Cast

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Linda Darnell ... Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin (a)
George Sanders ... Fedor Mikhailovich Petroff
Anna Lee ... Nadena Kalenin (a), editor
Hugo Haas ... Anton Urbenin, Volsky's overseer

Edward Everett Horton ... Count "Piggy" Volsky
Lori Lahner ... Clara Heller, maid
John Philliber ... Polycarp, Petroff's butler
Sig Ruman ... Kuzma, Volsky's woodcutter
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John Abbott ... Lunin, public prosecutor
Don Brodie
André Charlot ... Mr. Kalenin, publisher
Jimmy Conlin ... Man mailing letter
Byron Foulger ... Nadezhda's clerk-receptionist
Robert Greig ... Gregory, Volsky's butler
Paul Hurst ... Officer Orloff with murder knife
Frank Orth ... Cafe Maitre D' at end
Sarah Padden ... Beggar Woman
Constance Purdy
Mary Servoss ... Mrs. Kalenin
Charles Trowbridge ... Doctor
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Runtime:
106 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Sweden:15
Company:
Angelus Productions more

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Referenced in "Biography: Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel" (1999) more

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12 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Superb film version of Chekhov's 'The Shooting Party.', 13 July 2001
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Author: haroldg-2 from Philadelphia

SUMMER STORM is Douglas Sirk's 1944 filming of Chekhov's 'The Shooting Party.' Why this literate, mature and well acted film isn't better known is a mystery to me.

Set in Russia just before the revolution, it stars dark and lovely young Linda Darnell as a peasant beauty who's quest for wealth and position leads to tragedy and death.

Linda Darnell has one of the best roles of her film career, and she's never been better then she is here. She gives a sensual and sexy performance as the vain and greedy girl who plays several lovers against each other in order get all she can out of each of them. I think Linda Darnell's beauty hardened rather early, and even by A LETTER TO THREE WIVES in 1949, she was already rather sharp and cold looking. But in 1944 and SUMMER STORM, she was still soft and lovely, and one of the most remarkably beautiful brunettes of the era.

George Sanders gives another fine performance, in a rather typical George Sanders part, as a snobbish, aristocratic judge who's obsession with the girl ruins his career and his engagement to lovely Anna Lee. His loves scenes with Darnell are quite frank and passionate for their day, and both stars are excellent together.

And Edward Everette Horton gives what has to be one of the best performances of his career, in a role quite unlike his usual, as a spoiled, lecherous Russian count.

A top notch adult drama in every way.

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