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Return to Peyton Place [videorecording (DVD)].

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005].

Suburban life -- Drama.

Studio classic ; 28.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (122 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by Grace Metalious.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.

Special features: Commentary by author and historian Sylvia Stoddard ; Movietone News Footage ("Publisher Honors Author and Star" and "Return to Peyton Place: a Smash Hit") ; restoration comparison ; theatrical trailer.

Includes English (stereo. and mono.) and Spanish (mono.) language tracks with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Twentieth Century Fox presents a Cinemascope Picture ; a Jerry Wald production ; screenplay by Ronald Alexander ; directed by José Ferrer.

Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor and Robert Sterling with Luciana Paluzzi, Brett Halsey, Gunnar Hellström and Tuesday Weld.

"Peyton Place residents are up in arms after Allison MacKenzie (Carol Lynley) writes a scandalous novel whose characters and events closely mirror those in her hometown. Even her stepfather's (Robert Sterling) position as high school principal is threatened after he refuses to remove her book from the school's library. But the controversy doesn't end there - in Manhattan editing her book, MacKenzie is tempted to become involved with her married publisher (Jeff Chandler), while back in the small town, a miserable matriarch (Mary Astor) tries to destroy her son's marriage because of her own bigotry."--Container.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Metalious, Grace. Return to Peyton Place.

Ferrer, José, 1912-1992.

Lynley, Carol, 1942-

Chandler, Jeff, 1918-1961.

Parker, Eleanor, 1922-

Astor, Mary, 1906-1987.

Sterling, Robert, 1917-2006.

Weld, Tuesday, 1943-

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