Summer Storm (1944)
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Synopsis of Summer Storm
Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged Russian civil servant (Hugo Haas). Darnell becomes the object of the affections of her husband's employer, a lecherous count (Edward Everett Horton). The girl in turn is enamored of a provincial judge (George Sanders). At first, all flirtations are playful and harmless, but the judge takes Darnell so seriously that he ends up killing her in a jealous rage. Her husband is blamed for the crime, but the Count gets his comeuppance during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution (which didn't figure into the original Chekhov story, inasmuch as the author died in 1904). The big surprise in this is not that it works as well as it does, but that it features comic actor Edward Everett Horton in a straight, almost unsympathetic role, which he underplays beautifully. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Summer Storm
- George Sanders - Fedor Michailovitch Petroff
- Anna Lee - Nadina
- Hugo Haas - Urbenin
- John Philliber - Polycarp
- André Charlot - Mr. Kalenin
- John Abbott - Lunin
- Paul Hurst - Gendarrne
- Byron Foulger - Clerk in Newspaper Office
- Frank Orth - Mailman
- Ann Staunton - Dinner Guest
- Fred Nurney - Judge in Kharkov
- Sharon McManus - Beggar Child
- Kate MacKenna - Woman with Umbrella
- Linda Darnell - Olga Urbenin
- Edward Everett Horton - Count Volsky
- Lon Lahner - Clara
- Sig Rumann - Kuzma
- Mary Servoss - Mrs. Katenin
- Robert Greig - Gregory
- Charles Trowbridge - Doctor
- Charles Wagenheim - Postman
- Elizabeth Russell - Naughty Lady at Dinner
- Jimmy Conlin - Passerby at Mailbox
- Sarah Padden - Beggar Woman
- Mike Mazurki - Policeman
- Nina Koshetz - Gypsy Singer
- Director(s):
- Douglas Sirk
- Writer(s):
- Douglas Sirk, Rowland Leigh, Robert Thoeren
- Producer(s):
- Seymour Nebenzal
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