Parrish (1961)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Delmer Daves

Writers:

Delmer Daves (writer)
Mildred Savage (novel)

Release Date:

4 May 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

More than a boy...not yet a man!

Plot:

Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley...

Plot Keywords:

Tobacco | Plantation | Connecticut | Rival | Rich Farmer

Cast

Troy Donahue	...	Parrish McLean
Claudette Colbert	...	Ellen McLean
Karl Malden	...	Judd Raike
Dean Jagger	...	Sala Post
Connie Stevens	...	Lucy
Diane McBain	...	Alison Post
Sharon Hugueny	...	Paige Raike
Dub Taylor	...	Teet Howie
Hampton Fancher	...	Edgar Raike
David Knapp	...	Wiley Raike
Saundra Edwards	...	Evaline Raike
Sylvia Miles	...	Eileen
Bibi Osterwald	...	Rosie
Madeleine Sherwood	...	Addie
Hayden Rorke	...	Tom Weldon

Runtime:

138 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Windsor, Connecticut, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Joshua Logan originally wanted Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh to play the parents, and he tested Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda, among others, for the younger characters.

Goofs:

Continuity: Long shot shows Parrish and Paige in a convertible with the top down, but when the closeups come, the top is up.

Quotes:

Gramma: You'll go to hell, Lucy. Mark my words. Right to the fiery place!

Diane McBain's Stunning Close-Up

There is an extreme close-up of Diane McBain fairly early in the picture, when she runs into Troy on the lawn of the manor house. It is still one of the most beautiful close-ups I have seen, ever. It never fails to take my breath away, even when I know its coming.

McBain was equally beautiful in "Claudelle English". Of the three women, McBain, Connie Stevens and Sharon Hugeny, it is Connie who takes the acting honors. She was even better in her follow up, "Susan Slade".

How strange that McBain's career would end with weird films like "Thunder Alley" and "Mini-Skirt Mob". By then her acting was excellent and there is a powerful scene in "Mini" when she describes a snake eating a mouse. But her looks had become shockingly hard.

Connie became more and more beautiful, but too Vegas and cartoon-like to play real people.