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Summer Storm is a 1944 period romantic melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Edward Everett Horton, and Anna Lee. It was based on Anton Chekhov's 1884 novel The Shooting Party, with the screenplay written by Rowland Leigh.
Summer Storm: Directed by Douglas Sirk. With George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Anna Lee, Edward Everett Horton. An alluring peasant woman lures a cynical aristocrat away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Douglas Sirk
- 1944-07-14
Sep 10, 2012 · The action takes place in Russia in 1912, and Darnell turns in an excellent performance as the peasant girl whose passionate affair with a provincial judge (Sanders) escalates into tragedy.
Overview. It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results. Douglas Sirk. Director, Writer. Anton Chekhov.
George Sanders and Linda Darnell in Douglas Sirk's "Summer Storm" Summer Storm (1944) is a romance melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk, starring George Sanders and Linda Darnell. The supporting cast includes Edward Everett Horton, Hugo Haas, and Anna Lee.
Between Linda Darnell’s bewitching femme fatale and the cloud of fatalism that shadows and then smothers George Sanders’ amoral lead, Summer Storm feels a lot more like a noir than anything else, and a compelling one at that. A delightfully sleazy Edward Everett Horton steals every scene he’s in.
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