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Summer Storm

Name: Summer Storm
Genre: Drama
Released: 1944-07-14
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 5.667

★ 5,7 /10 (12 Votes)

1944 EN 106 min

Overview

It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.

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Release date

14/07/1944

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Popularity

0.9

Don't Go Near This Woman! Nothing So Beautiful Was Ever So Deadly!

Genres

Drama

Status

Released

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Runtime

106 min

George Sanders

Fedja Michailovitch Petroff

Linda Darnell

Olga Kuzminichna Urbenin

Anna Lee

Nadina Kalenin

Edward Everett Horton

Count "Piggy" Volsky

Hugo Haas

Anton Urbenin

Laurie Lane

Clara Heller

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John Philliber

Polycarp

Sig Ruman

Kuzma

John Abbott

Lunin

Mary Servoss

Mrs. Kalenin

André Charlot

Mr. Kalenin

Robert Greig

Gregory

Nina Koshetz

Gypsy Singer

Paul Hurst

Orloff

Charles Trowbridge

Doctor

Don Brodie

Bit Player (uncredited)

Jimmy Conlin

Man Mailing Letter (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

Clerk in Newspaper Office (uncredited)

John Kelly

Bit Player (uncredited)

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Kate MacKenna

Woman with Umbrella (uncredited)

Mike Mazurki

Tall Policeman Bending Over Petroff (uncredited)

Sharon McManus

Beggar Child (uncredited)

Fred Nurney

Judge in Kharkov (uncredited)

Frank Orth

Cafe Maitre d' at End (uncredited)

Sarah Padden

Beggar Woman (uncredited)

Constance Purdy

Dinner Guest (uncredited)

Elizabeth Russell

Dinner Guest Offended by Kuzma (uncredited)

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Ann Staunton

Dinner Guest (uncredited)

Charles Wagenheim

Bit Part (uncredited)

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Anita Venge

Bit Part (uncredited)

Lon Poff

Foreman of the Jury (uncredited)

Frances Morris

Dinner Guest (uncredited)

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Gabriel Lenoff

Father Konstantin - Priest (uncredited)

John Kelly

Policeman (uncredited)

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Kenneth Jones

Bit Player (uncredited)

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Joyce Gates

Gypsy Girl (uncredited)

Rex Evans

Bit Part (uncredited)

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Woody Charles

Young Lackey (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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George Sanders is the local magistrate "Petroff" in Czarist Russia in 1912. He is contentedly engaged to his rather uninspiring fiancée "Nadena" (Anna Lee) when he encounters the temptress peasant "Olga" (Linda Darnell). She quite literally knocks this otherwise pillar of the community figure off his feet much to the chagrin of "Nadena" who tells him to get lost. Turns out, "Olga" is a bit of a gold-digger, and when she has an affair with his close friend "Count Volsky" (Edward Everett Horton), "Petroff" is livid - and tragedy ensues. It's based on the Chekhov "Shooting Party" play and is a fa…

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Tragic Romance. Doomed Choices. When Fyodor tries to settle down with Natalia, he gets fatally attracted to Olga and his life falls apart. Linda Darnell (Olga) really is irresistible and I can see why George was led astray. His love for Anna Lee (Natalia) endures however, and the *pining* he must have done after the revolution...you can see it in his eyes. I really have to hand it to Edward Everett Horton, though. He delivers such a Fantastic performance as the Count. Sanders gets to show off his Russian (and his singing voice) also. We also get treated to some superb VO work by Sanders that…

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