Peyton Place takes over a year and a half starting in 1941. Director Robson has a really slick way of getting the date into the ground situation. Robson and cinematographer William C. Mellor go a little wild with Peyton Place–there’s a lot of location shooting and Robson tries hard to make the view read more
Peyton Place
Directed by Mark Robson
Written by John Michael Hayes from the novel by Grace Metalios
1957/USA
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Jerry Wald Productions
Repeat viewing/Netflix This glossy melodrama practically introduced U.S. audiences to rape, incest, illegitimacy, and plenty o read more
In a 1956 interview with journalist Hal Boyle, Peyton Place author Grace Metalious said: "To a tourist, these towns look as peaceful as a picture postcard. But if you go underneath that picture, it's like turning over a rock with your foot--all kinds of strange things crawl out. Everybody that lives read more
Within the two and a half hours of Peyton Place, there is more drama packed in than in two seasons of your typical soap opera. That being said, it’s no surprise that Peyton Place became the basis for a soap opera running between 1964 and 1969. But before you write this film off as a soap springboa read more
