Jessica, the eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother Carl, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant.Jessica, the eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother Carl, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant.Jessica, the eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother Carl, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant.
Ted Heimerdinger
- Carl
- (as Ted Heim)
Marjorie Johnson
- Mother
- (as Marj Johnson)
Hersha Parady
- Donna
- (as Betty Ann Parady)
Ron Parady
- Tom
- (as Ronald B. Parady)
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- TriviaThe film was shot for $29,000. That money covered the cost of 35mm film stock, processing and food, which was easily raised by taking advantage of '60s-era tax laws that made losing money on investing in film a profitable endeavor for wealthy funders. [IndieWire]
- GoofsWhen Carl is walking up the road; he carries a suitcase in his left hand and a bag in his right. However, in the next immediate cut when a car passes him by it is now in reverse. The suitcase is carried with the right hand and the bag with the left hand.
- Alternate versionsShortly after release, the film was sold to an exploitation producer who added raunchier scenes to give the film more appeal on the drive-thru grindhouse circuit. Amongst the changes made to this version (which was renamed Miss Jessica is Pregnant) were a shot of Carl spotting Jessie naked from behind in the bath near the beginning after he clears the dinner table, a sex scene between two revellers from the bar in the basement of the gas station after Carl manhandles Jessie back into the car, and a sex scene between Carl and Jessie in the field which was much more ambiguous in the original. When restored in the late 2010s, the brief shot of Jessie naked in the bath was retained, but the other sex scenes (including some shot but not included in either version) can only be seen in the supplemental material on the Blu-ray releases.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Twisted Sex Vol. 18 (1998)
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Something of a lost classic
Joseph L. Anderson's "Spring Night, Summer Night" is another sixties exploitation movie to be rediscovered and restored by Nicolas Winding Refn but this one really is something of a lost classic. Anderson filmed it almost entirely with non-professionals and shot it on location in Canaan, Ohio. It's a study of a close-knit Redneck family and of what happens when the oldest son gets his half-sister pregnant and it reeks of authenticity, helped considerably by the stunning black and white cinematgraphy of Brian Blauser, David Prince and Art Stifel.
There isn't a great deal in the way of plot and the performances have a ropey, if real-life, feel to them but it's clearly the work of someone who knew his movies and whose influences were as much European as American but who went on to make only one other film before disappearing. Unmissable if you can track it down.
There isn't a great deal in the way of plot and the performances have a ropey, if real-life, feel to them but it's clearly the work of someone who knew his movies and whose influences were as much European as American but who went on to make only one other film before disappearing. Unmissable if you can track it down.
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By what name was Spring Night Summer Night (1967) officially released in Canada in English?
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