Splendor in the Grass (1961, Ntsc, All Region, Import)

Movie / Show Details

REGION 0 NTSC DVD (PLAYSTATION COMPATIBLE)

AUDIO: ENGLISH 2.0, FRENCH 2.0

SUBTITLES: ENGLISH, KOREAN

English Summary:

In 1928 Kansas, Wilma Dean “Deanie” Loomis (Natalie Wood) is a teenage girl who follows her mother’s advice to resist her desire for sex with her boyfriend Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty), the son of one of the town’s more prosperous families due to oil drilling. In turn, Bud reluctantly follows the advice of his father Ace (Pat Hingle) to wait to marry Deanie until after college and to find another kind of girl with whom to satisfy his desires.

Bud’s parents are ashamed of his older sister Ginny (Barbara Loden), a flapper and sexually-promiscuous party girl who smokes, drinks, and has recently been brought back from Chicago, where her parents had a marriage annulled to someone who married her solely for her money; the rumor around town is that she actually had an abortion. Disappointed in their daughter, Bud’s parents pin all their hopes on him and pressure him to attend Yale University. The emotional pressure is too much for Bud, who suffers a physical breakdown and nearly dies of pneumonia.

At a New Year’s Eve party, Ginny becomes drunk to the humiliation and disappointment of her parents. Bud attempts to take her home, but she refuses. Instead, she looks for someone to dance with her, asserting that men “only want to talk to her in the dark.” She leaves the party with a man, and Bud finds her outside in a car being raped by the man, a crowd of men surrounding them. He starts a fight with the man, but loses when the crowd joins in. Bud takes Deanie home after the party. Disturbed by what he’s seen happen to his sister, he tells Deanie that they have to stop kissing and fooling around and breaks up with her.

Splendor in the Grass DVD 1961 / Directed by Elia Kazan / Starring: Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle, Warren Beatty / Korean release DVD