Return to Peyton Place
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jose Ferrer
Carol Lynley
Jeff Chandler
Eleanor Parker
Mary Astor
Robert Sterling
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Young Allison MacKenzie, who is called to New York for the final editing of her first novel (a thinly disguised case history of the residents of her hometown of Peyton Place), falls in love with her publisher, Lewis Jackman, an older married man. When the novel is published, many townspeople are outraged, particularly Roberta Carter, a domineering and snobbish woman determined to wreck her son Ted's marriage to his Italian-born wife, Raffaella. Hounded by her lurid past, Selena Cross is unable to face her lover, ski instructor Lars Hedlom. Allison's mother, Connie, shocked by her daughter's exposé of the town's citizens, becomes enraged when her husband, school principal Mike Rossi, is fired because he refuses to remove the novel from the school library. Meanwhile, Roberta has finally succeeded in driving her daughter-in-law out of the house. Emotionally upset, Raffaella races to the ski slopes and nearly causes herself to have a miscarriage. Events come to a head when a town meeting is called to discuss Rossi's defense of the controversial novel. Allison and Lewis are present when Connie publicly stands by her daughter and denounces Roberta Carter as a hypocritical bigot. The crisis over, Mike is reinstated at the school, Selena is reunited with Lars, and Ted is reconciled with Raffaella when he finally stands up to his mother. A more mature and wiser Allison realizes that she could never find true happiness by destroying Lewis' marriage.
Director
Jose Ferrer
Cast
Carol Lynley
Jeff Chandler
Eleanor Parker
Mary Astor
Robert Sterling
Luciana Paluzzi
Tuesday Weld
Brett Halsey
Gunnar Hellström
Kenneth Macdonald
Joan Banks
Emerson Treacy
Bob Crane
Bill Bradley
Tim Durant
Casey Adams
Pitt Herbert
Warren Parker
Arthur Peterson
Jennifer Howard
Wilton Graff
Laura Mccann
Hari Rhodes
Leonard Stone
Alex Dunand
Jack Carr
Reedy Talton
Tony Miller
Max Mellinger
Collette Lyons
Charles Seel
Carol Veazie
Helen Bennett
Crew
Ronald Alexander
David Bretherton
Charles G. Clarke
Warren B. Delaplain
Don Feld
Bernard Freericks
David Hall
Curtis Harrington
Fred Maclean
Ben Nye
Hans Peters
Leonid Raab
Walter M. Scott
Jack Martin Smith
Helen Turpin
Jerry Wald
Jerry Wald
Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman
Paul Francis Webster
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
The voice of the character "Mark Steele", played by Bill Bradley in an uncredited role, is actually that of the film's director Jose Ferrer.
Notes
A sequel to Peyton Place (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957).
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video April 18, 1991
Released in United States Spring May 1961
CinemaScope
Released in United States on Video April 18, 1991
Released in United States Spring May 1961
