Underplayed Gems

Spring Night, Summer Night (1967)

Spring Night, Summer Night poster
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In a struggling Appalachian mining town, a young man navigates family responsibilities and a romantic relationship with his stepsister. The film captures the hardscrabble daily life and simmering tensions of a close-knit community.

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What happens

Spring Night, Summer Night is a 1967 independent drama film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Joseph L. Anderson, a film professor from Ohio State University. Franklin Miller co-produced, as well as co-wrote alongside Doug Rapp. It stars Larue Hall, Ted Heimerdinger, Marjorie Johnson, John Crawford, and Hersha Parady. A sexploitation version was restructured from the film's contents in order to recoup losses, and distributed as Miss Jessica Is Pregnant. The film has been likened to Italian neorealism. In 2021, director Nicolas Winding Refn commissioned an official restoration of the original film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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