Spring Night, Summer Night
Spring Night, Summer Night is a 1967 independent drama film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Joseph L. Anderson, a film professor from Ohio State University. Franklin Miller co-produced, as well as co-wrote alongside Doug Rapp. It stars Larue Hall, Ted Heimerdinger, Marjorie Johnson, John Crawford, and Hersha Parady. A sexploitation version was restructured from the film's contents in order to recoup losses, and distributed as Miss Jessica Is Pregnant.
The film has been likened to Italian neorealism. In 2021, director Nicolas Winding Refn commissioned an official restoration of the original film.
Plot summary
In an Appalachian Ohio coal mining town, siblings Jessica and Carl have a complex relationship, exacerbated when she is impregnated by him. There are doubts about whether or not they are related, and thus negating incest. When he returns to town from Columbus, Ohio and discovers this, he contemplates between taking her away or abandoning her.Cast
- Larue Hall as Jessica Royer
- Ted Heimerdinger as Carl Royer
- Marjorie Johnson as Mae Royer
- John Crawford as Virgil Royer
- Hersha Parady as Donna
- Tracy Smith as Chris Royer
- Mary Cass as Rose
- David Ayres as Lou