Summer and Smoke (1961)

Film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play of the same title. Being a Tennessee Williams work it is a story about sexual repression in the American south, but its also a beautifully written melodrama. Set in small town Mississippi? in the 1910's? its the story of a repressed preachers daughter (Geraldine Page) and the neighbor boy she's loved since childhood (Laurence Harvey) who returns to town after medical school as very much a playboy. There is much angst, Pamela Tiffin is super cute and Earl Holliman has a cameo part. ***