Home from the Hill (film)


"Home from the Hill" redirects here. For the book by Hilary Hook, and the subsequent documentary, see Hilary Hook.
Home from the Hill

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Produced by Edmund Grainger
Written by William Humphrey
Harriet Frank Jr.
Irving Ravetch
Starring Robert Mitchum
Eleanor Parker
George Peppard
George Hamilton
Everett Sloane
Music by Bronislau Kaper
Cinematography Milton R. Krasner
Editing by Harold F. Kress
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) March 3, 1960
Running time 150 min
Country  United States
Language English

Home from the Hill is a 1960 film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, and Luana Patten.

The script was adapted from the novel, Home from the Hill, by author, William Humphrey. The film was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. [1]

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Plot

Captain Wade Hunnicutt, the wealthiest and most powerful citizen in his East Texan town, is married to Hannah. Wade had two children approximately the same age: Theron, Wade's son with Hannah, and Rafe Copeley, his illegitimate son. Wade is a notorious womanizer, and as the story opens he is conducting an extramarital affair. which has turned his wife Hannah against him. She has brought up their son Theron to be dependent upon her; but as he reaches adulthood, Hunnicutt insists on taking over his upbringing, initiating him in hunting and other masculine pursuits, under the watchful eye of Rafe, Hunnicutt's loyal employee. But Theron's new lifestyle leads him into a love affair with a local girl named Libby Halstead, and thence to learning things about his parents that were previously hidden from him. Theron is disturbed by his parents' dysfunctional relationship, and is thus not anxious to marry Libby, his true love. The vicious cycle threatens to continue when Libby gives birth to Theron's out-of-wedlock son, but Rafe turns Libby into an "honest woman" by acting as father to the child. Libby's father, Albert Halstead, fearing that his daughter has been impregnated by Captain Hunnicutt, sets out to right the wrong and assassinates the Captain. Theron seeks justice and tracks down his father's killer in the Sulfur River bottom in Northeast Texas. Hannah surprises Rafe by acknowledging him as Wade's son and having Wade's tombstone reflect the fact.

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See also

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Home from the Hill". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3303/year/1960.html. Retrieved 2009-02-15. 

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Films directed by Vincente Minnelli
1940s
Cabin in the Sky (1946) · I Dood It (1943) · Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) · The Clock (1945) · Ziegfeld Follies (1945) · Yolanda and the Thief (1945) · Undercurrent (1946) · The Pirate (1948) · Madame Bovary (1949)
1950s
Father of the Bride (1950) · Father's Little Dividend (1951) · An American in Paris (1951) · The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) · The Story of Three Loves (1953) · The Band Wagon (1953) · The Long, Long Trailer (1953) · Brigadoon (1954) · The Cobweb (1955) · Kismet (1955) · Lust for Life (1956) · Tea and Sympathy (1956) · Designing Woman (1957) · Gigi (1958) · The Reluctant Debutante (1958) · Some Came Running (1958)
1960s
Home from the Hill (1960) · Bells Are Ringing (1960) · Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) · Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) · The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) · Goodbye Charlie (1964) · The Sandpiper (1965)
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