Return to Peyton Place

Return to Peyton Place
  • Release date: 5 May 1961
  • Release year: 1961
  • Runtime: 123 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: scandal, melodrama, small town, sequel, possessive mother, manipulative mother, ski instructor, infidelity, based on novel, mother daughter relationship
Plot:
The residents of Peyton Place, New Hampshire, are not happy when its most famous denizen, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town. Most outraged is malicious Roberta Carter, who wants the book banned from the school library. Roberta's other mission is to destroy her son Ted's marriage to his Italian bride. Theirs, however, isn't the only marriage in trouble: Alison's book is causing a rift between her mother and stepfather, who is also the school principal and one of the book's few defendants.
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