Summer Storm (1944)
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38% of users liked it
(32 ratings)
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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Douglas Sirk
- Genres
- Drama, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 14, 1944 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
None of the characters were likable, but the tragic story is well-executed by the talented director and Sanders and Darnell give fine performances.
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Cast
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George Sanders
as Fedor Michailovitch Petroff
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Linda Darnell
as Olga Urbenin
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Anna Lee
as Nadina
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Edward Everett Horton
as Count Volsky
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Hugo Haas
as Urbenin
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Lon Lahner
as Clara
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John Philliber
as Polycarp
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Sig Rumann
as Kuzma
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André Charlot
as Mr. Kalenin
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Mary Servoss
as Mrs. Katenin
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John Abbott
as Lunin
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Robert Greig
as Gregory
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Paul Hurst
as Gendarrne
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Charles Trowbridge
as Doctor
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Byron Foulger
as Clerk in Newspaper Office
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Charles Wagenheim
as Postman
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Frank Orth
as Mailman
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Elizabeth Russell
as Naughty Lady at Dinner
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Ann Staunton
as Dinner Guest
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Jimmy Conlin
as Passerby at Mailbox
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Fred Nurney
as Judge in Kharkov
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Sarah Padden
as Beggar Woman
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Sharon McManus
as Beggar Child
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Mike Mazurki
as Policeman
- Rex Evans
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Nina Koshetz
as Gypsy Singer
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Kate MacKenna
as Woman with Umbrella
- Frances Morris
- John Kelly
- Ken Jones
