Summertime [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: David Lean David Lean

Overview

Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane takes an extended trip to Venice, half hoping to find the romance that has always eluded her. Luck of luck, she meets handsome Renato Di Rossi (Rossano Brazzi), who sweeps her off her feet. Jane's flight on Cloud Nine comes to a flaming crash when she learns that Renato is married and the father of a large family. Picking herself up and dusting herself off, Jane is determined to keep her romance alive, and hang the consequences. She ultimately does what's best for everyone, and heads back to Ohio, wistfully clutching to the memory of the happiest summer of life. Gorgeously color-photographed on location by Jack Hildyard, Summertime was an adaptation of (and vast improvement upon) Arthur Laurents' play The Time of the Cuckoo.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/12/2022
UPC:	0715515274418
Original Release:	1955
Source:	Criterion Collection
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	10,421

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Katharine Hepburn	Jane Hudson
Rossano Brazzi	Renato Di Rossi
Darren McGavin	Eddie Jaeger
Isa Miranda	La signora Fiorini
Mari Aldon	Phyl Jaeger
Jane Rose	Madame McIlhenny
MacDonald Parke	Mr. McIlhenny
Gaitano Audiero	Mauro
Jeremy Spenser	Vito
Virginia Simeon	Giovanna
Edward Andrews	Actor
Tanya Lopert	Teenage Girl
André Morell	Englishman
Angelo Puppin	Man that falls into canal
Gaetano Autiero	Mauro
Alessandro Cicognini	Composer

Technical Credits

Arthur Laurents

H.E. Bates

Donald Ogden Stewart

David Lean	Director
Ilya Lopert	Producer
Arthur Laurents	Screenwriter
John Cox	Sound Effects
Peter Handford	Sound Effects
Winston Ryder	Sound Effects
Jacqueline Thiédot	Sound Effects
H.E. Bates	Screenwriter
Donald Ogden Stewart	Screenwriter