Home From the Hill (MGM) (1960)

| CENES FROM “HOME FROM THE HILL” George Hamilton and Luana Patten are the youthful sweethearts of ‘‘Home From the Hill,”’ in which they play co-starring roles with Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker. The new MGM picture is based on William Humphrey’s best-seller, dealing with conflict in a Texan family. It was filmed in CinemaScope and color partly on locations in Texas and Mississippi, under the direction of Academy Award-winner Vincente Minnelli. Still] 754-11 Home From the Hill Mat 2-A Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker exchange angry words in a scene from ‘Home From the Hill,””> MGM film version of William Humphrey’s best-seller, dealing with conflict in a Texan family. George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane and Luana Patten also have leading roles in the CinemaScope and color production, filmed partly on locations in Texas and Mississippi. The picture was directed by Academy Award-winner Vincente Minnelli. Still 1754-48 Robert Mitchum plays the profligate husband of Eleanor Parker in “Home From the Hill,’ MGM film version of William Humphrey’s best-seller, dealing with conflict in a Texan family. The picture was filmed in CinemaScope and color largely on locations in Texas and Mississippi, under the direction of ‘‘Oscar”winner Vincente Minnelli. Still 1754-77 Home From the Hill Mat 1-B Home From the Hill Mat 2-B Former child actress, Luana Patten plays a co-starring role with Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker in ‘‘Home From the Hill,”?> MGM film version of William Humphrey’s best-seller, dealing with conflict in a Texan family. The picture was filmed in CinemaScope and color largely on locations in Texas and Mississippi, under the direction of ‘‘Oscar’’winner Vincente Minnelii. Still Luana Patten—3939 Home From the Hill Mat 1-E ROBERT MITCHUM, ELEANOR PARKER AND YOUNG NEWCOMERS, IN STAR-MAKING ROLES, SEEN IN MGM'S “HOME FROM THE HILL” “Home From the Hill’ is a powerful drama of a divided family, of a youthful love affair and of the emotional conflict involved in the status of an illegitimate son. The Metro-Golwyn-Mayer picture, in CinemaScope and color, is based on the best-seller and Book-of-the-Month Club selection by William Humphrey. Its cast is headed by Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker, with co-starring roles played by George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane and former child actress Luana Patten. Peppard scored on Broadway in “The Pleasure of His Company” before coming to Hollywood; Hamilton has made only one previous motion picture, the prizewinning “Crime and Punishment, i ace “Home From the Hill” was directed by Vincente Minnelli, who won an Academy Award for “Gigi.” The new drama was filmed on an ambitious scale on locations in the picturesque hunting country of Texas and Mississippi. It tells the story of Capt. Wade Hunnicutt (Robert Mitchum), his wife, Hannah (Eleanor Parker), their son, Theron (George Hamilton) and_ the backwoods boy, Rafe (George Peppard). Leading landowner of a small Texan town, Hunnicutt’s fame as a fearless hunter is exceeded only by his reputation as a chaser after women. Disillusioned soon after their marriage, Hannah has consented to remain in her husband’s house only on condition that she be given sole charge of Theron’s upbringing. But as the boy grows into manhood he comes to idolize his father, a devotion and respect furthered when the latter teaches him to shoot and encourages him to track down and kill a ferocious wild boar — one of the most thrilling sequences ever depicted on the screen. It is when the love affair between Theron and Libby Halstead (Luana Patten) is broken up by the girl’s father that Theron is given an acute realization of Hunnicutt’s notoriety. Following a family quarrel, he learns for the first time that his close friend, Rafe, is his half-brother, unacknowledged by Hunnicutt—an acknowledgement that Rafe yearns to hear. The story is brought to.a crisis when Libby tells her family that she is going to have Theron’s baby. It is a crisis marked by murder and retribution, in which each of the drama’s leading characters follows his and her destined course. Although primarily an engrossing emotional drama, “Home From the Hill” is lightened with both festive and amusing scenes, among them one, early in the story, in which the seventeenyear-old Theron, too shy to ask Libby for a date, employs the more experienced Rafe as a substitute suitor. The scenes between the young lovers in their attic trysting hideaway are delightful and there is a festive episode in the gala barbecue and dancing party held in celebration of the victorious boar hunt. A Sol C. Siegel Production, “Home From the Hill’ was produced by Edmund Grainger. The screen play is by Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch. BRIEF SUMMARY Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker head the cast of Metro-GoldwynMayer’s “Home From the Hill,” with co-starring roles played by George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane and Luana Patten. Peppard and Hamilton are two of the screen’s most promising newcomers; former child actress Luana Patten has emerged as a leading young dramatic star. The powerful emotional drama of a divided family in a small Texan town, in which the sins of the father bring about tragic consequences in the lives of the other members of the family, is based on the best-seller novel and Book-of-the-Month Club selection by William Humphrey. The picture was filmed in CinemaScope and color on an ambitious scale on locations in the cotton-growing and hunting country of Mississippi and Texas, with one of its thrilling episodes depicting a wild boar hunt. A Sol C. Siegel Production, “Home From the Hill” was directed by Vincente Minnelli, Academy Award-winning director of “Gigi’ and “Some Came Running.” It was produced by Edmund Grainger from a screen play by Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch. CAST Capt. 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After George Hamilton spent the morning on the set of Metro-GoldwynMayer’s “Home From the Hill” in a dinner scene with his screen parents, Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker, in which he had to eat SEVEN orders of roast beef before it was completed, the young film newcomer walked into the studio commissary and ordered lunch — a huge plate of enchilladas! BOAR BARBECUE, WITH SQUARE-DANCING, FESTIVE “HOME FROM THE HILL” SCENE Roasting a bore is a favorite international indoor sport, but in Hollywood they take it literally. Not, however, before changing the spelling and moving the sport outdoors. Which leads up to one of the biggest boar roasts ever shown in a movie. One of the highlight scenes of “Home From the Hill,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film version of William Humphrey’s bestselling novel, in CinemaScope and color, the sequence not only depicted the boar barbecue but also set Robert Mitchum, co-starred with Eleanor Parker, to dancing. A dancing Bob Mitchum is something rare, and so was the boar which, despite all rumors, is tough to find in Hollywood. Actually, three wild boars were used for the picture, each weighing around 450 pounds. In the story, Mitchum’s son, played by George Hamilton, hunts down and kills the biggest boar in Texas. Proud of the boy’s feat, his father invites the town to celebrate at the barbecue. As preparations were made to film LEARNED TO TALK “SWEET SOUTHERN” Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton and Luana Patten had to learn to talk “sweet Southern” for their roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Home From the Hill,’ drama of a small town Southern family. Marguerite Lampkin, Hollywood’s expert on the Southern accent, coached the members of the cast in slurring their “‘r’s.” Miss Lampkin, sister of Broadway playwright Speed Lampkin, previously filled this capacity for Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman when they teamed in “Cat On a Hot Tin Roof.” “Home From the Hill,” based on the best-selling novel by William Humphrey, was directed by Academy Award-winner Vincente Minnelli. It is in CinmeaScope and color. Paris Won't Let Go Of Dir. Vincente Minnelli Director Vincente Minnelli can’t keep away from Paris — ie. “An American in Paris’ — “Gigi” (set in Paris) — and, now, his new MetroGoldwyn-Mayer picture, “Home From the Hill,’ for which location scenes were filmed in — Paris, Texas! nL THE ADDITIONAL SCENE AND PLAYER MATS, SHOWN IN THE COMPLETE CAMPAIGN MAT ON ANOTHER PAGE, MAY BE ORDERED SINGLY. the scene, Director Vincente Minnelli called Mitchum into a square-dance circle. “Let’s see how high you can step,” he said. “Just keep those cameras turning,” said Mitchum, “and I’ll show you.” When the square-dancers got going, so did Mitchum. He and his partner, a sweet-faced, plump, brunette, outstepped the best of them, with Mitchum never losing a beat. The scene went off as smoothly as the Southern talk. “Where did you Sy to-dance like that?” asked Minnelli. “Just comes natural,” shrugged Mitchum. Then, as the director turned to the star’s partner to compliment her, Mitcuhm put his finger to his lips, but too late. The dancing lady explained that she was Melissa Ten Eyck, former member of the internationally famous dance team of Ten Eyck and Weily. The team starred on Broadway in the 1920’s for the Shuberts. “I sure can pick ’em,” laughed Mitchum. CHILD STAR LUANA PATTEN GROWS UP Luana Patten is making her screen comeback — at the age of twenty-one. Her retirement lasted four years, just long enough for her to graduate from high school and to make up her mind whether she wanted to go to college or return to the acting career which she had begun when she was five years old. Acting won out, and Luana recently returned to Metro-GoldwynMayer, where she once hopscotched around the lot with Butch Jenkins. Her current film mates are two star-bound young actors, George Peppard and George Hamilton, with whom she shares costar billing in MGM’s “Home From the Hill,” starring Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker. “Although I appeared in ‘Rock, Pretty Baby,’ and ‘The Restless Years’ prior to this film, it gives me my first adult role,” Miss Patten points out. “In the other pictures I played a typical teen-ager.” SHE'S FAVORITE “MA” Anne Seymour is getting to be show business’ favorite “mother.” The actress scored on Broadway as Franklin Roosevelt’s mother in “Sunrise at Campbello,” came to Metro-GoldwynMayer to portray Luana Patten’s mother in “Home From the Hill,” and stayed on to play George Peppard’s mama in “The Subterraneans.”