Summer Storm Director: Douglas Sirk Cast: George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Anna Lee, Edward Everett Horton
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- DVD Release Date: 10/20/2009
- Original Release: 1944
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- Sales Rank: 14,186
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Features
Original Theatrical Trailer; Interview with Author Bernard Dick on Director Douglas Sirk Interviewed by Joel Blumberg
Full Product DetailsScene Index
Disc #1 -- Summer Storm
2. Opening [4:42]
3. Radiant Summer [7:01]
4. Summer Shower [8:18]
5. Chance Encounter [9:10]
6. A Toast [9:25]
7. Waiting For Days [7:38]
8. Strange Irony [9:17]
9. Old Fool [14:07]
10. Too Weak [9:57]
11. Heavenly Electricity [8:54]
12. Gentleman's Hands [8:19]
13. Good Old Days [8:11]
Editorial Reviews
Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged Russian civil servant (Hugo Haas). Darnell becomes the object of the affections of her husband's employer, a lecherous count (Edward Everett Horton). The girl in turn is enamored of a provincial judge (George Sanders). At first, all flirtations are playful and harmless, but the judge takes Darnell so seriously that he ends up killing her in a jealous rage. Her husband is blamed for the crime, but the Count gets his comeuppance during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution (which didn't figure into the original Chekhov story, inasmuch as the author died in 1904). The big surprise in this is not that it works as well as it does, but that it features comic actor Edward Everett Horton in a straight, almost unsympathetic role, which he underplays beautifully. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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