Spring Night, Summer Night

Spring Night, Summer Night — Plot

Carl and Jessie are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple’s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.

• Release date
• May 28, 1967
• Runtime
• 82 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Joseph L. Anderson

Spring Night, Summer Night — Cast

L

Larue Hall Jessie

T

Ted Heimerdinger Carl

M

Marjorie Johnson Mae John Crawford Virgil

B

Betty Ann Parady Donna

M

Mary Cass Rose

R

Ron Parady Tom

B

Bob Jones Jacob