pDownload Movie The Long Hot Summer [] Online or Start Watchp br pFor download click here : b bp br pPaul Newman has his glorious youthful swagger in this southernfried melodrama, which marked his first picture with Joanne Woodward (they married after shooting ended). The script is a melange of William Faulkner stories, although it appears more under the influence of Tennessee Williams and IPicnicI than the Nobel Prize winner. Drifter Newman catches the eye of schoolmarm Woodward and her father, a rural Mississippi bigshot (Orson Welles). This is not one of Welles's better moments he appears to be conducting makeup experiments. There is some enjoyable flapdoodle along the way, in the FreudmeetsIGone with the WindI manner of '50s southern cooking, but the ending is embarrassingly compromised. The same production team would leave out the boxoffice concessions a few years later on IHudI. A studly Newman justifies this description of his character: "I wish I was Ben Quick. He's got the whole state of Mississippi to graze on.