1961 contd....
RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE
Brief Synopsis
Young Allison MacKenzie, who is called to New York for the final editing of her first novel (a thinly disguised case history of the residents of her hometown of Peyton Place), falls in love with her publisher, Lewis Jackman, an older married man. When the novel is published, many townspeople are outraged, particularly Roberta Carter, a domineering and snobbish woman determined to wreck her son Ted's marriage to his Italian-born wife, Raffaella. Hounded by her lurid past, Selena Cross is unable to face her lover, ski instructor Lars Hedlom. Allison's mother, Connie, shocked by her daughter's exposé of the town's citizens, becomes enraged when her husband, school principal Mike Rossi, is fired because he refuses to remove the novel from the school library. Meanwhile, Roberta has finally succeeded in driving her daughter-in-law out of the house. Emotionally upset, Raffaella races to the ski slopes and nearly causes herself to have a miscarriage. Events come to a head when a town meeting is called to discuss Rossi's defense of the controversial novel. Allison and Lewis are present when Connie publicly stands by her daughter and denounces Roberta Carter as a hypocritical bigot. The crisis over, Mike is reinstated at the school, Selena is reunited with Lars, and Ted is reconciled with Raffaella when he finally stands up to his mother. A more mature and wiser Allison realizes that she could never find true happiness by destroying Lewis' marriage.
Cast & Crew
Jose Ferrer - Director
Carol Lynley -Allison MacKenzie
Jeff Chandler - Lewis Jackman
Eleanor Parker - Connie
Mary Astor - Roberta Carter
Robert Sterling - Mike Rossi
Luciana Paluzzi - Raffaella
Tuesday Weld - Selena Cross
Brett Halsey - Ted Carter
Gunnar Hellström - Lars
Kenneth MacDonald - Dexter
Joan Banks - Mrs. Humphries
Emerson Treacy - Bud Humphries
Charles G. Clarke - Director of Photography
Ronald Alexander - Screenwriter
David Bretherton - Film Editor
Franz Waxman - Music
Leonid Raab - Orchestration
Franz Waxman - Composer
Paul Francis Webster - Composer
Jack Martin Smith - Art Director
Hans Peters- Art Director
Ben Nye- Makeup
Helen Turpin- Hairstyles
Don Feld - Costume Design
Walter M. Scott- Set Decoration
Fred MacLean- Set Decoration
Bernard Freericks- Sound
Warren B. Delaplain- Sound
original release: 5 May 1961
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