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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1944 DVD Release: 10/20/2009 Format: DVD - Black and White,Color Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 46 mins Studio: VCI Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Drama, Romantic Drama

Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's -The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged Russian civil servant (Hugo Haas). Darnell becomes the object of the affections of her husband's employer, a lecherous count (Edward Everett Horton). The girl in turn is enamored of a provincial judge (George Sanders). At first, all flirtations are playful and harmless, but the judge takes Darnell so seriously that he ends up killing her in a jealous rage. Her husband is blamed for the crime, but the Count gets his comeuppance during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution (which didn't figure into the original Chekhov story, inasmuch as the author died in 1904). The big surprise in this is not that it works as well as it does, but that it features comic actor Edward Everett Horton in a straight, almost unsympathetic role, which he underplays beautifully. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

George Sanders - Fedor Michailovitch Petroff
Linda Darnell - Olga Urbenin
Anna Lee - Nadina
Edward Everett Horton - Count Volsky
Hugo Haas - Urbenin