Splendor in the Grass

Name: Splendor in the Grass
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: October 10, 1961
Duration: 124 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Fred Stewart, Jan Norris, Joanna Roos

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: October 10, 1961 | TV-14

Starring: Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Fred Stewart, Jan Norris, Joanna Roos, John McGovern, Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle, Warren Beatty, Zohra Lampert

Summary: A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Director: Elia Kazan

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 124 min

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Michael Wilmington

Superb, vibrantly emotional drama. [27 Apr 2001, p.C1]

Charles Taylor

Like nobody else, Kazan succeeded in capturing the overheated, self-pitying dramatization so near and dear to the teenage heart. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

Miss Wood has a beauty and radiance that carry her through a role of violent passions and depressions with unsullied purity and strength. There is poetry in her performance, and her eyes in the final scene bespeak the moral significance and emotional fulfillment of this film. Read full review

Eric Henderson

Inge’s scenario unravels alarmingly once the two would-be lovers start to drift apart thanks to Deanie’s nervous breakdown and the simultaneous (almost psychically connected) market crash of 1929, but the first half of the film is a tour de force of deferred urges, contortion acts of awkward intimacy, and the thrill of adolescence. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Youth exploitation pictures were all the rage at the time, and while this is better than some in execution and intent, it's still exactly that. Read full review

Empire Angie Errigo

Natalie Wood is stunning and the drama is full of passion but this suffers a little from 60s hollywood style. Read full review

Pauline Kael

The movie doesn't suggest that adolescents have a right to sexual experimentation -- it just attacks the corrupted grown-ups for their failure to value love above all else. It's the old corn, fermented in a new way.

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