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''Peyton Place'' is a 1957 American CinemaScope film drama, in color by De Luxe, produced by Jerry Wald, directed by Mark Robson, and starring Lana Turner and Hope Lange, with supporting roles by Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Diane Varsi, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn, and Terry Moore. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes is based on the bestselling 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious. ''Peyton Place'' is an exposé of the lives and loves of the residents of a small New England mill town, in the years surrounding World War II, where scandal, homicide, suicide, incest, and moral hypocrisy hide behind a tranquil façade. ==Plot== In the seemingly idyllic New England town of Peyton Place, drunkard Lucas Cross (Arthur Kennedy) stumbles out of his house as his son leaves town. Lucas's downtrodden wife, Nellie (Betty Field) goes to work as the housekeeper for Constance "Connie" MacKenzie (Lana Turner), a local dress shop owner. The daughters of the two families, Allison MacKenzie (Diane Varsi) and Selena Cross (Hope Lange) are best friends and are about to graduate high school. Following an argument about the merits of a good education, a stranger to the town, Michael Rossi (Lee Philips), is hired to be the new principal of the high school by the president of the school board, Leslie Harrington (Leon Ames), the owner of the local mill; the students' choice for the position is Miss Thornton (Mildred Dunnock). This selection infuriates Lucas, the school handyman, and he gets drunk. Later, while picking out dresses for Allison's birthday party, Connie presents herself as a prim and proper sexually repressed woman and encourages her daughter not to invite Betty Anderson (Terry Moore) to the party, due to Betty's overt sexual conversations; ultimately, Constance reconsiders and allows Allison to invite anyone to her party. Betty arrives at the party with Rodney Harrington (Barry Coe), who turns off the lights and kisses Allison; the party is ended, however, when Connie walks in, embarrassing Allison by making a scene. Later that week, Rossi arrives at the MacKenzie house to announce that Allison has been named valedictorian, and he asks Connie to chaperone Allison's graduation dance. Meanwhile, Harrington tells his son, Rodney, that he will not accept his going to the graduation dance with a girl with such a bad reputation as Betty Anderson, and forces Rodney to call Betty and uninvite her to the dance. Instead, Rodney goes with Allison, though Allison is in love with another classmate, Norman (Russ Tamblyn). When they get to the dance, Rodney splits off to make out with Betty in his car, but she is angry at him for dumping her and refuses to have sex with him. Outside, after dancing with her, Rossi kisses Connie, but she again rejects his advances. Selena returns home and is raped by Lucas. Selena becomes pregnant, and when she goes to Dr. Swain (Lloyd Nolan) for an abortion he refuses, and she confides in him that her step-father raped her. Swain confronts Lucas, and he is forced by Swain to sign a confession and leave town. Lucas chases Selena home out of revenge, and she trips and falls. While treating her, Swain operates on her for "appendicitis," though in fact he terminates her pregnancy. Her family are told only of the "appendectomy," and not the true reason. At a picnic for Labor Day 1941, Rodney and Betty reunite and go skinny dipping while Allison and Norman go swimming, in proper suits, nearby. A town busybody sees the nude couple and tells Connie it was Allison and Norman, whom she had earlier seen on their way to the lake. Connie explodes at Allison for causing rumors. They fight, and Connie tells her that Allison's father was married to another woman and was not a good man like Connie had told her. Allison runs upstairs and finds that Nellie Cross has committed suicide by hanging herself in a closet. This shocks Allison, and she is confined to a bed for a time, until she decides to leave Peyton Place for New York City. World War II erupts and the men of Peyton Place go off to war. However, when Rodney is killed in action, his father offers to take care of his wife, Betty, and she is at last welcomed into the family. Meanwhile, Connie visits Rossi to apologize for being so dismissive of him, and, when she confesses that she was a married man's mistress, Rossi decides to stay in Peyton Place and promises to always care for her. Years later, Lucas returns to Peyton Place and tries to rape Selena again, but this time she kills him in self-defense. She is then arrested and tried by the District Attorney (Lorne Greene) for murder: the truth about Selena's self-defense actions and other ongoings then come to light, and she is acquitted. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peyton Place (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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