William Faulkner's the long, hot summer [WorldCat Entities]

"Long, hot summer"@en
"Long hot summer"@it
"Feux de l'été, français"

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"Ben Quick è un tipo pericoloso: un piantagrane che girovaga da un villaggio all'altro del sud degli Stati Uniti preceduto dalla fama di piromane. Quando, facendo l'autostop, riceve un passaggio da Clara Varner, per Ben sta solo cominciando l'ennesima avventura. Cercherà di entrare in casa Varner, spalleggiato dal padre di lei, Willy, un uomo scostante e autoritario che comanda sulla propria famiglia e su un intero paesino del Mississippi."@it
"Ben Quick llega a un pequeño pueblo tras ser expulsado de otra ciudad, acusado de haber provocado un incendio. Allí es contratado por Will Varner, dueño y señor del lugar."@es
"Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills out of forbidden-love and battle-of-the-sexes."@en
"A town one heartbeat away from murder. One spark can set it in motion. Enter a stranger, Ben Quick, one step agead of his past. Ben Quick is that spark in this hot-blooded story of love, ambition, desire, and betrayal."@en
"Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills."
"Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills."@en
"Conflict between a Mississippi town boss and a tenant farmer."@en
"In een dorpje aan de Mississippi leeft een tyrannieke landeigenaar. Wat hem dwars zit is het ontbreken van nakomelingen met de talenten om hem op te volgen. Dan arriveert een ronddolende klusjesman, elders verjaagd wegens brandstichting, die besluit rond te blijven hangen en met zijn dochter te trouwen."
""Ben Quick [is] an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner. After getting run out of a Mississippi town, he gets a ride hitchhiking with Clara Varner. Clara's father ... is Will Varner, an aging tyrannical family patriarch pressuring his daughter to get married because he desperately wants grandchildren. After some initial reservations about Ben's fiery past, Varner gives him a job in his general store, and soon they take a liking to one another after realizing that both are swindlers who admire each other's talents. It isn't long before old man Varner decides that Ben is a perfect candidate to be groom to Clara. Immediately she resists and Will sets out to get his way through his usual methods of bribery, intimidation and ultimatums in an escalating clash of wills that threatens to tear the Varners apart"--Videodisc sleeve."@en
"When Ben Quick, suspected barnburner, drifts into town, he catches the eye of Will, a tyrannical, intimidating patriarch (Will) who decides Quick is the ideal husband for his spinsterish daughter."@en
"Drama about Ben Quick who's known throughout the county as a barn burner and his relationship with the family of domineering patriarch Will Varner who is pressuring his daughter to get married because he desperately wants grandchildren. Preceded by previews of other Paul Newman films."
"A drama about Ben Quick, who's known throughout the county as a barn burner, and his relationship with the family of domineering patriarch, Will Varner, who is pressuring his daughter to get married because he desperately wants grandchildren."@en
"Ben Quick llega a un pequeño pueblo tras ser expulsado de otra ciudad, acusado de haber provocado un incencio. Allí es contratado por Will Varner, dueño y señor del lugar."@es
"Un giovane disoccupato, ingiustamente noto come piromane (lo era il padre), è assunto in una ricca azienda agricola del Mississippi. Preso in simpatia dal padrone, suscita le gelosie di suo figlio...(LaFeltrinelli)."
"When Ben Quick, a suspected barnburner drifts into town, he catches the eye of Will Varner, a tyrannical, intimidating patriarch who decides Quick is the ideal husband for his spinsterish daughter. But once the loner moves in, the two men lock horns, drawing Varner's family into a complex web of emotions and actions that leave all of them changed forever."@en
""When Ben Quick, a suspected barnburner drifts into town, he catches the eye of Will Varner, a tyrannical, intimidating patriarch who decides Quick is the ideal husband for his spinsterish daughter. But once the loner moves in, the two men lock horns, drawing Varner's family into a complex web of emotions and actions that leaves all of them changed forever"--Container."
"When Ben Quick, a suspected barnburner, drifts into town, he catches the eye of Will, a tyrannical, intimidating patriarch who decides Quick is the ideal husband for his spinsterish daughter, Clara."@en
"When Ben drifts into town, he catches the eye of a local patriarch who decides Ben is ideal to marry his daughter. A complex web of emotions and actions that leaves all of them changed forever."