As Summers Die

• Director: Jean-Claude Tramont
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• Genre: Drama
• Themes: Race Relations, Social Injustice
• Main Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis, Scott Glenn
• Release Year: 1986
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

As Summers Die was produced as an "HBO Premiere" attraction. Set in the segregationist South of the 1950s, the film pits the wealthy but decadent members of a landed-gentry white family against a feisty old black woman, on whose property oil has been discovered. Idealistic attorney Scott Glenn bucks the family--and the inbred prejudices of the community--to protect the woman's interests. He finds himself with two unsuspected allies in the forms of young Jamie Lee Curtis and ancient Bette Davis, two "renegade" members of the very family that wants to grab the oil-rich land. As Summers Die had its cable-TV debut on May 17, 1986. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Bill Coates - Carley; Jamie Lee Curtis - Whitsey Loftin; Bette Davis - Hannah Loftin; Penny Fuller - Marci Holt; Scott Glenn - Willie Croft; Ed Grady - Boudreaux; Bruce McGill - V.D. Skinner; John McIntire - Judge Dudley McCormack; Danny Nelson - Burt; CCH Pounder - Priscilla; John Randolph - Augustus Tompkins; Beah Richards - Elvira Backus; Paul Roebling - Percy Holt; Richard Venture - Brevard Holt; Ron O'Neal - Daniel Backus; John Eldridge - Tax Assessor

Credit

Jo Ynocencio - Costume Designer, Jean-Claude Tramont - Director, Michel Legrand - Composer (Music Score), Ernest Day - Cinematographer, Robert W. Christiansen - Producer, Rick Rosenberg - Producer, Jeff Andrus - Screenwriter