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Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass
drama, melodrama
1961
USA
Elia Kazan
124 min.
Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zora Lampert, Warren Bitty, Fred Stuart, Joenn Rus, John McGovern, Jean Norris
Kansas of the late 1920s. The closed world of a small town, where harsh Puritan customs reign. The love of two high school students is banned. She cannot disobey a mother who is insusing for a chastity before marriage, he does not dare to go against the will of his father, who wants to send her son to Yale University at all costs. Not finding a way out of feelings, the young man starts an affair with a classmate of his lover. Upon learning of this, the girl tries to commit suicide and gets into a psychiatric clinic.
