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Return to Peyton Place

  • 19611961
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  • 2h 3m
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Return to Peyton Place (1961)
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The residents of Peyton Place are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town.The residents of Peyton Place are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town.The residents of Peyton Place are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town.

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  • Director
    • José Ferrer
  • Writers
    • Ronald Alexander(screenplay)
    • Grace Metalious(novel)
  • Stars
    • Carol Lynley
    • Jeff Chandler
    • Eleanor Parker
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  • Director
    • José Ferrer
  • Writers
    • Ronald Alexander(screenplay)
    • Grace Metalious(novel)
  • Stars
    • Carol Lynley
    • Jeff Chandler
    • Eleanor Parker
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    • 31User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
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    Jeff Chandler in Return to Peyton Place (1961)
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    Carol Lynley
    Carol Lynley
    • Allison MacKenzieas Allison MacKenzie
    Jeff Chandler
    Jeff Chandler
    • Lewis Jackmanas Lewis Jackman
    Eleanor Parker
    Eleanor Parker
    • Connie Rossias Connie Rossi
    Mary Astor
    Mary Astor
    • Mrs. Roberta Carteras Mrs. Roberta Carter
    Robert Sterling
    Robert Sterling
    • Mike Rossias Mike Rossi
    Luciana Paluzzi
    Luciana Paluzzi
    • Raffaella Carteras Raffaella Carter
    Brett Halsey
    Brett Halsey
    • Ted Carteras Ted Carter
    Gunnar Hellström
    Gunnar Hellström
    • Nils Larsenas Nils Larsen
    • (as Gunnar Hellstrom)
    Tuesday Weld
    Tuesday Weld
    • Selena Crossas Selena Cross
    Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney
    • Self - Vocalist During Opening and Closing Creditsas Self - Vocalist During Opening and Closing Credits
    • (voice)
    Tom Anthony
    • Townsman at Meetingas Townsman at Meeting
    • (uncredited)
    Walter Bacon
    • Townsman at Meetingas Townsman at Meeting
    • (uncredited)
    Joan Banks
    • Mrs. Humphriesas Mrs. Humphries
    • (uncredited)
    Helen Bennett
    • Intervieweras Interviewer
    • (uncredited)
    George Boyce
    • Townsman at Meetingas Townsman at Meeting
    • (uncredited)
    Bill Bradley
    • Mark Steeleas Mark Steele
    • (uncredited)
    Ralph Brooks
    • Townsmanas Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Buckingham
    • Waiteras Waiter
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    • Director
      • José Ferrer
    • Writers
      • Ronald Alexander(screenplay)
      • Grace Metalious(novel)
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    The residents of Peyton Place, New Hampshire, are not happy when its most famous denizen, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town. Most outraged is malicious Roberta Carter, who wants the book banned from the school library. Roberta's other mission is to destroy her son Ted's marriage to his Italian bride. Theirs, however, isn't the only marriage in trouble: Alison's book is causing a rift between her mother and stepfather, who is also the school principal and one of the book's few defendants. —Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
    • scandal
    • melodrama
    • small town
    • sequel
    • possessive mother
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      • It Begins Where Peyton Place Left Off...It looks into the face of the town...down its streets where shame became famous...into the lives of its people, so secretly shrouded in bigotry and false morality. It takes you back to "Peyton Place"...the town afraid to let the outside world look in. It lets you discover what happened the day Allison returned - to defend herself against the truth "Peyton Place" called indecent...they way of life it called promiscuous.
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      • Drama
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were both considered for the role that eventually went to 'Mary Astor (I)'.
    • Goofs
      Although this sequel picks up just several years after original story ends in the early-mid Forties, the new story occurs 15 years later with barely-aged characters living in the early Sixties.
    • Connections
      Featured in Film Review: In Cold Blood/Glossies (1968)
    • Soundtracks
      The Wonderful Season of Love
      Music by Franz Waxman

      Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

      Performed by Rosemary Clooney

    User reviews31

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    A necessary return?
    The sequel to the fifties blockbuster ,it's much more modest in scope and in ambition and its ending is so predictable it does not equal the first episode.Constance McKenzie (Lana Turner is replaced by Eleanor Parker) is no longer the central character but one must say there is no more central character.There are about three plots which could be depicted as "the book Alison wrote" "Ted and his over possessive mom" and "Will Selena be an outcast for all her life?" .All these plots meet in the end as Alison's stepfather stands in great danger of being discharged ,cause he put his stepdaughter's more or less autobiographical "work" in his high school library.Lucianna Paluzzi ,who plays the unfortunate daughter-in-law ,is a future James Bond Girl ( one of the best villains ,Fiona Volpe, in "Thunderball")

    "Peyton Place" fans might be interested but the others had better choose the 1957 original work .
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    • Mar 4, 2011

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    • Release date
      • May 5, 1961 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Rückkehr nach Peyton Place
    • Filming locations
      • Mammoth Mountain, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Jerry Wald Productions
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    • Budget
      • $1,785,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 3 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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