A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
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Title: Hot Spell (1958)
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| Cast overview: | |||
| Shirley Booth | ... | Alma Duval | |
| Anthony Quinn | ... | John Henry Duval | |
| Shirley MacLaine | ... | Virginia Duval | |
| Earl Holliman | ... | John Henry 'Buddy' Duval Jr. | |
| Eileen Heckart | ... | Alma's Friend | |
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Clint Kimbrough | ... | Billy Duval |
| Warren Stevens | ... | Wyatt Mitchell - Virginia's Boyfriend | |
| Jody Lawrance | ... | Dora May | |
| Harlan Warde | ... | Harry | |
| Valerie Allen | ... | Ruby | |
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A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
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I don't know whether it's Shirley Booth's uniquely pathetic acting persona, or simple typecasting, but I always mix this movie up with her other dramas from the 50s, particularly Come Back, Little Sheba. Similarly, I repeatedly misremember this movie as a scenario by William Inge. It is 50s drama at its dankest and Inge-iest, the story of a sad family who live in a frame house in nowheresville, with a Shirley Booth mother who fears losing her husband, feels guilty about not having been a showpiece of a wife, and most of all yearns for a golden past that is probably imaginary. I wonder whether the whole thing isn't really just a recombinant pastiche of TV-playhouse clichés from the early and mid -50s: not only derivative of William Inge but with a generous dose of Paddy Chayefsky and some Tennessee Williams thrown in for good measure. The people who made this film were manufacturing a product to satisfy what they perceived as a popular taste. But I wonder if anyone could have enjoyed it or recommended it to their friends. More likely they felt depressed and unclean and eager to forget the whole thing.