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Desire Under the Elms (1958)

Director: Delbert Mann

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From Time Out Film Guide

Surprisingly faithful to the play, but still a leaden travesty. Director and cast (Loren especially) are hopelessly at sea with Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of familial lust (for land as much as for the body), which is a loose transposition to 19th century New England of Euripides' Hippolytus.

Author: TM

Time Out Film Guide

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Director: Delbert Mann

Producer: Don Hartman

Cast: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton, Pernell Roberts, Anne Seymour full cast

Duration: 114 mins

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