Desire Under the Elms

Director: Delbert Mann Delbert Mann

Overview

Director Delbert Mann and screenwriter Irwin Shaw adapt Eugene O'Neill's 20th-century version of a Greek tragedy to the screen with a bit more discretion than need be. The story takes place in the New England of the 1840s. Emotionally cool but passionately hot farmer Burl Ives the smoldering Sophia Loren as his third wife. Anthony Perkins arrives to ignite this powder keg of pent-up lust, with Perkins and Loren engaging in a semi-incestuous love affair. When Loren becomes pregnant, Ives thinks the child is his own and the heat it turned up considerably. And with Eugene O'Neill aping Greek tragedy, could infanticide be far behind?

Product Details

Release Date:	11/16/2021
UPC:	0032429350596
Original Release:	1958
Rating:	NR
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Language:	English
Time:	1:51:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sophia Loren	Anna Cabot
Anthony Perkins	Eben Cabot
Burl Ives	Ephraim Cabot
Frank Overton	Simeon Cabot
Pernell Roberts	Peter Cabot
Rebecca Welles	Lucinda
Jean Willes	Florence
Anne Seymour	Eben's Mother
Roy Fant	Fiddler
Eugene O'Neill	Actor
Elmer Bernstein	Composer

Technical Credits

Irwin Shaw

Don Hartman	Producer
Delbert Mann	Director
Irwin Shaw	Screenwriter