Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)

Directed by

Leslie Norman

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of sugarcane cutters return to their annual city holiday. Old relationships face strain as the seasonal idyll comes under pressure.

slow-burnmelancholicearthytensebittersweetintimateunsettling

What happens

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (U.S. title: Season of Passion) is a 1959 Australian-British film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills and Angela Lansbury. It was written by John Dighton based on the 1955 Ray Lawler play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. It has been called "one of the most frustrating movies ever made in Australia" because "it had terrific source material, the backing of a Hollywood studio, a decent group of filmmakers" but the result was critically and commercially underwhelming. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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