Desire Under the Elms (1958)

Directors

Delbert Mann

Cast

Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton, Pernell Roberts

The story

Widower Ephraim Cabot, a greedy New England farmer who has overworked two wives to their graves, works his three sons from the two women as slaves. The farm's land originally belonged to the second wife, and before her death she pleads with Eben, the youngest son, to take the farm from the old man as his birthright. Eben buys out his half-brothers' shares of the farm with money stolen from his father, and Peter and Simeon head off to California to seek their fortune.

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