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Peyton Place
The story is about a man named Michael Rossy, a man who came back after the Second World War to try a new experience in the city after the war. That story begins, as the man enters into an exciting adventure with a pompous man and a shopkeeper named Constance. In the end they both discover that the city of New England is full of scandals and dangerous secrets.
27 August 1880, Helena, Montana, USA
25 January 1901, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
15 July 1911, New York City, New York, USA
1 June 1900, Manhattan, New York, USA
7 January 1929, Los Angeles, California, USA
August 6, 1919 in Bolivar County, Mississippi, USA
17 February 1914, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
24 March 1906, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
23 November 1937
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
8 February 1916, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
February 20, 2004
Though a contemporary audience would hardly find Peyton Place shocking today, what is intriguing is that audiences in 1957 would not have found it shocking either.
May 25, 2007
See it for 1950s' sexual mores if nothing else.
January 30, 2012
Peyton Place, with its myriad plot threads and cast of characters is a rollicking good yarn with obvious melodramatic tensions borne from some very juicy themes.
March 02, 2004
The elements and storylines that ended up watered-down are to the detriment of the film's overall effect.
January 15, 2005
It's by turns gripping and silly. I suppose that's what makes good soap.
April 06, 2005
Effective melodrama with some satisfying emotional confrontations, particularly from Lana Turner.
June 24, 2006
It comes with its full quota of sex, conspiracy and violence, but the story is told in such circumspect fashion that next to nobody was offended.
September 22, 2004
Shows America's beauty through its warts and blemishes, something that even today is often overlooked.
January 01, 2000
It's corn in the grand style, much of it delivered with sweep and conviction, and the intrigues come thick and fast.
January 30, 2012
This is the kind of hypertensive trash that gives melodrama a bad name, cynically tempering its naughty bits with smug moralizing.
July 06, 2010
Under Mark Robson's direction, every one of the performers delivers a topnotch portrayal.
October 08, 2006
Mark Robson's Hollywood version is far more enjoyable than the Grace Mattallius's trashy novel it's based upon, a quintessential small-town movie that in morality and other issues is sort of an ideological summation of the entire decade.