Hot Summer Night

1957
Approved
1h 26m

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6.1/10

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Leslie Parrish and Paul Richards in Hot Summer Night (1957)

An out-of-work journalist honeymooning in the Ozarks stumbles on a lead that a notorious bank robber is in town and tries to get his story.

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An out-of-work journalist honeymooning in the Ozarks stumbles on a lead that a notorious bank robber is in town and tries to get his story.An out-of-work journalist honeymooning in the Ozarks stumbles on a lead that a notorious bank robber is in town and tries to get his story.An out-of-work journalist honeymooning in the Ozarks stumbles on a lead that a notorious bank robber is in town and tries to get his story.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

439

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Tom Ellis
(as Robert Wilke)

Claude Akins

Truck Driver

Marianne Stewart

Ruth Childers

Malcolm Atterbury

Jim - Newspaper Man on Street
(uncredited)

Chet Brandenburg

Diner Patron
(uncredited)

Joseph Breen

Hotel Clerk
(uncredited)

Naomi Childers

Townswoman
(uncredited)

Sonny Chorre

Rosey
(uncredited)

George Cisar

Manager
(uncredited)

Bud Cokes

Diner Patron
(uncredited)

Walter Coy

Pete Wayne
(uncredited)

Ken DuMain

Townsman
(uncredited)

Director
- David Friedkin
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Trivia
The car Deputy Follett drives is a 1951 or '52 Dodge Coronet 4-door sedan. Those two model years are practically identical because Chrysler was too busy fulfilling orders from the military for the Korean War to bother with any restyling of the Cornet for 1952.

Goofs
Elly has one of those magic six-shooters that holds ten bullets.

Quotes
Truck Driver: [to Colleen Miller] Nobody gets tricky with me. You understand that, Lady? Nobody gets tricky with me.

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5/10

early L Nielsen

Reporter Partain (30 year old Leslie Nielsen) goes looking for trouble... and Ruth Childers in a little hick town. James Best (Sheriff, from Dukes of Hazzard County) picks a fight. Ed Andrews is the local deputy who knows things, and may or may not be helpful. I recognized Andrews from Glass Bottom Boat. Andrews was always the wise uncle, or the general, supporting the lead. Ruth Childress knows where Tom Ellis is, but she doesn't want to get involved... more than she already is. Partain finally meets the people he's looking for, and starts asking questions. Then things go from bad to worse when they hold Partain and demand a ransom. a fair amount of suspense while we wait to see if they can save him before he's knocked off by the kidnappers. Claude Akins has a meaty role as one of the bad guys. Up to now, Nielsen had mostly tv roles.. then he started getting larger film roles in the mid 1950s. Directed by David Friedkin. did a lot of writing for tv series... I Spy, Hitchcock Presents. this one is very okay. nothing too grand.