Synopsis
Peyton Place (1957) is Mark Robson's drama starring Lana Turner, and you can watch it online on iFILM. A quiet New England town runs on strict codes of decency, yet behind the bright porches sit secrets nobody says out loud.
Shopkeeper Constance MacKenzie hides that her daughter Allison was born out of wedlock, and the shame has frozen her into prudishness — even toward the new teacher, Michael Rossi, whom she clearly wants. Allison, restless, falls in love for the first time and aches to break free. Down the road, a drunk janitor beats his stepdaughter, and that violence drives the story toward murder, a trial, and the public stripping of the whole town's hidden life. Hope Lange, Diane Varsi and Arthur Kennedy play it so that a verdict lands harder than any shouting match.
Adapted from Grace Metalious's scandalous bestseller, this was among the first big Hollywood pictures to say words like incest and abortion aloud, and it drew nine Academy Award nominations. It runs two and a half hours, unhurried, like a wound slowly coming to a head. Lovers of classic family melodrama with a double bottom will settle right in. Stream Peyton Place (1957) online on iFILM.
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