"In the heat of summer... the smoke of desire..."
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
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Laurence Harvey
John Buchanan Jr.
Geraldine Page
Alma Winemiller
Rita Moreno
Rosa Zacharias
Una Merkel
Mrs. Winemiller
John McIntire
Dr. Buchanan
Thomas Gomez
Papa Zacharias
Pamela Tiffin
Nellie Ewell
Malcolm Atterbury
Rev. Winemiller
Lee Patrick
Mrs. Ewell
Max Showalter
Roger Doremus
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