Det er en historie om en sydstatsfamilie. Sygdom, alkohol og jalousi har ødelagt familien, kærlighed og had ligger ikke langt fra hinanden. På en varm og trykkende sommeraften kommer fortvivlelsen op til overfladen, og der opstår en dramatisk konflikt.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Avon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Nøgleord: dying and death, depression, individual, suicide, jealousy, husband wife relationship, southern usa, mississippi river, plantation, patriarch, based on play or musical, inheritance, sibling rivalry, brother against brother, cynical, alcoholic, dying father, angry, family conflicts, father son conflict, southern gothic, anxious, daughter–in–law father–in–law relationship, star athlete, cotton plantation, mississippi, authoritarian, condescending
- Cast: Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson, Madeleine Sherwood