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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
EAN: 0024543162704
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 22546
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: May 05, 1961
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Carol Lynley stars as Allison, whose book about her neighbors at Peyton Place creates problems for her family. Tuesday Weld, Jeff Chandler co-star.
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Rating:  - Half Misfire And Half Triumph
The much anticipated sequel to the 1957 box office sensation, somewhat rests in the middle of being a success and a failure. Most lamentably, none of the cast members of the original film reprises their roles, for whatever varying reasons, nor does the original director, Mark Robson. Miscasting and changes from the novel may account for some of the movie's awkwardness, but the quality of the performances and the last scene involving the town meeting which again, exposes the truth and the bigoted views of the townspeople, elevates it above other film sequels that suffered similar blows of comparison. Conversely, the fact that entirely different locations and sets are used, also gives the movie a sense of unfamiliarity - Mamouth, California for the ski lodge scenes, Fox's Malibu Ranch and backlots for the remainder of interiors and exteriors - the rest of the footage comes from the 1959 film "The Best Of Everything" (New York) and the first movie.
Allison MacKenzie (Carol Lynley) publishes an autobiographical novel, Samuel's Castle, based on her hometown of Peyton Place and the people she knows. She becomes romantically involved with Lewis Jackman (Jeff Chandler), her married publisher. He encourages her to be as truthful as possible and never to be frightened of it. But that's not the only repercussion that her book incites - the locals are offended by the truths that Allison's tome reveals. Her mother Constance (Eleanor Parker) is both angry and fearful of both her daughter's ... Read More
Rating:  - RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE
THIS IS WONDERFUL SEQUEL TO PEYTON PLACE, ALTHOUGH THESE TWO MOVIES STAND ON THEIR VERY OWN, CAST IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, IT CONTINUES TO ENTERTAIN AND HOLD YOUR ATTENTION BEAUTIFULLY. IT GIVES AN ACCOUNT WHAT LIFE IS LIKE IN A SMALL COUNTRY TOWN WHICH IS NOT ABLE TO MOVE OR CHANGE THEIR MORALS AND VALUES AND TO KEEP THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE TRIPPED IN THE PAST.
Rating: - Not too bad... considering
I enjoyed this movie because of its innocence of the future. The speech at the end (spoken by the one woman who seemed too righteous and prudish for the town) was practically prophetic. I understand that the young people were all upset about the hyprocrosy by the adults that lived in that town, and it was good that the book they were all up in arms about was written, but the truth of the matter is... a little bit of immorality goes a long way. Back then, I'm sure that movie had tongues wagging and we laugh at it now because we have seen so much more scandalous things in movie theatres since then. We think to ourselves "If they only knew what we would see in the theatres within the next few decades they wouldn't have been so quick to try to boost movie ticket sales with enticements of scandalous things that go on behind closed doors".
Rating:  - romantic soap of the 50s
no lana turner but whit eleonor parker and mary astor.
romantic nice movie of the 50s
Rating: - Great sequel to Peyton Place
Return to Peyton Place begins with Rosemary Clooney singing the beautiful title song,(she sings it faboulously, and she is featured here because her then husband Jose Ferrer is the director (also see his State Fair..a hilarious mess) the Franz Waxman melody that enhanced so much of the 1957 film, Peyton Place. Then you get a whole new cast, and Carol Lynley, writing a book about Peyton Place with Jeff Chandler. She and he are 'artists", and they have to deal with Mary Astor, a pillar of morality in Peyton Place. Her performance is not to be missed; it is a thorough lesson in screen acting, lessons she shared with Bette Davis years before. If you are curious about how to dominate a low end script, watch Ms. Astor do it.
Then there is Tuesday Weld, who should have been cast as Allison but is Salina Cross and very good in her scenes with Mary Astor. She(Weld) has some harrowing moments in trying to defend herself from charges of lustiness with certain folk in Peyton Place. Eleanor Parker is the new Connie and she is not as good as Lana Turner, but she has moments with Lynley that define a new kind of melodrammatic acting..so over the top Everest would be a mole hill here. . Also, Lucianna Paluzzi is here, with her Italian ways,her accent is so thick she is mostly incomprehensible, and she is driven to ,literally, the heights and depths of despair.Her scenes with Mary Astor are seering moments of sado-masochistic behavior. Bret Halsey, an actor with incredible limitations, is puddy for ... Read More
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