DVD : Peyton Place
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543103264
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 02, 2004
Running Time: 157 minutes
Sales Rank: 11458
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1957
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Peyton Place is the sensitive and poignant story of coming of age in a small New England village whose peaceful facade hides love and passion, scandal and hypocrisy.
Amazon.com:
Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1957, Peyton Place has become synonymous with torrid soap opera. Though the novel by Grace Metalious is even more sensational, the movie provides plenty of tantalizing story turns--secrets, adultery, rape, bitter parents, frustrated teenagers, suicide, and murder. Multiple storylines deftly interweave: Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi), an ambitious young girl struggling with the neurotic fears of her mother (Lana Turner, in a career-reviving performance) and the neurotic fears of the boy she loves (Russ Tamblyn), while her best friend Selena Cross (Hope Lange) fights off the brutal advances of her drunken stepfather. The movie had to sanitize the novel's New England town in order to get some of the more unsavory plot turns past the censors; ironically, the glossy "normal" surface makes these events all the more shocking, paving the way for David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. --Bret Fetzer
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I'm sure Peyton Place was a novel for it's time, especially with all its talk about teenage sex, domestic rape and a few other shocker thrown in, but it doesn't stand up to the test of time for this viewer. I kept one eye on the clock most of the time because it felt incredibly slow. A good part of that because this was orginally a television series and not a straight movie. The series does manage to get the nuisances of a small town down but to be honest I just wasn't riveted by this. So again I'm the odd woman out on this. View at your own risk.
Rating:  -
While I've read the book and think it is much better than the film, I still love this film a lot for the great acting, music, and filmography. The DVD reproduction is much clearer than the VHS version.
I was a little disappointed in the commentary with Russ Tamblyn and Terry Moore. Both rambled on about personal items not relevant to the movie and a lot of silent gaps. While part of the commentary was enjoyable, I think maybe since so many years have passed they might have forgotten more than they remembered.
I always like the extras with the DVD versions, but this one was lacking in extras. Overall it is worth having this movie on DVD because it is a classic. The picture and audio quality is superb and worth the price. It's too bad Lana Turner died before the production of this DVD. Her commentary would have been priceless.
Unfortunately they don't make great movies like this anymore!
Rating: -
My husband & I were married at the White Hall Inn in Camden, Maine. The movie was shot at that location. I purchased this for an anniversary present for us and as a momentum for our wedding memories. There are many clips and photos while making this film there."Scandal in a New England Town."That's were it all took place.It is truley, a classic romance!
Rating:  -
The scandalous best-selling novel by Grace Metalious is brought to life in this somewhat watered-down 20th Century Fox production, although it was still considered shocking and controversial for the time. Filmed on location in Camden, Maine with some interiors at the studio, the movie has an authentic feel, particularly in comparison to previous pictures shot entirely on backlots. Lana Turner, whose career needed a shot in the arm, took on the role of Constance MacKenzie, a woman who hides her teenage daughter Allison's (Diane Varsi) illegitimacy, and strives to control the girl from making the same mistakes that she did. Although this is the main storyline, several others intertwine, exposing the underside and hypocrisy of small town life. Next in line is definitely the plight of Allison's best friend, Selena Cross (Hope Lange), whose poverty-stricken existence isn't even the half of what goes on in her luckless life. Her despicable stepfather Lucas Cross (Arthur Kennedy, who at this stage in his career masterfully portrayed drunken lowlifes), rapes her (which results in a pregnancy which Selena later miscarries), and her mother Nelly (Betty Field), who also happens to be the MacKenzie's maid, discovers this and commits suicide. Betty Anderson (Terry Moore) is the town "fast girl" whose romantic liaisons set the community's tongues wagging, while Constance tries to fight her attraction to high school principal Mike Rossi (Lee Phillips), again afraid of history repeating itself. ... Read More
Rating:  -
It's hard to believe that this preachy movie about life in a small New England town was nominated for one Oscar, let alone nine. I was not a big fan of the book of "Peyton Place" (more due to the bad writing than the content), but the movie takes everything that was remotely interesting in the book (the murder; the relationship between one of the locals and the new school principal, etc) and turns it into a 2 ½ hour sermon on why hypocrisy and gossip are wrong. All of the "shocking content" of the book has been toned down, presumably so as not to upset the more sensitive movie-going audiences (or the censors) and to make matters worse, the movie includes a voice over by Allison, a self-righteous teenager whom I think was meant to be based on the book's author, Grace Metalious, which is so sickeningly sentimental that I didn't know whether I wanted to laugh or puke.
The acting is atrocious and melodramatic and I wonder what possessed the makers of this film to cast Lee Phillips as one of the romantic leads (the school principal). Phillips has a voice that makes him sound as though he has just inhaled helium, which is actually quite amusing, but not the least bit attractive.
This film is hopelessly dated, and an absolute ordeal to watch (my mother gave up after the first 45 minutes). I only recommend it to fans of the book or people interested in seeing how people thought back in 1957.
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