Home from the Hill is a 1960 film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, and Luana Patten.
The script was adapted from the novel, Home from the Hill, by author, William Humphrey. The film was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Captain Wade Hunnicutt, the wealthiest and most powerful citizen in his East Texan town, is married to Hannah. Wade had two chil...
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Home from the Hill is a 1960 film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, and Luana Patten.
The script was adapted from the novel, Home from the Hill, by author, William Humphrey. The film was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Captain Wade Hunnicutt, the wealthiest and most powerful citizen in his East Texan town, is married to Hannah. Wade had two children approximately the same age: Theron, Wade's son with Hannah, and Rafe Copeley, his illegitimate son. Wade is a notorious womanizer, and as the story opens he is conducting an extramarital affair. which has turned his wife Hannah against him. She has brought up their son Theron to be dependent upon her; but as he reaches adulthood, Hunnicutt insists on taking over his upbringing, initiating him in hunting and other masculine pursuits, under the watchful eye of Rafe, Hunnicutt's loyal employee. But Theron's new lifestyle leads him into a...
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