Desire Under the Elms

Year: 1958

Runtime: 111 mins

Language: English

Director: Delbert Mann

DramaRomance

Ephraim Cabot, a vigorous elder, obsessively tends his New England farm out of greed. His sons—children of two wives he buried early—resent him and share his avarice. The most bitter, Eben, believes his mother’s legacy makes him the rightful heir. Cabot’s new wife Anna rivals him for the estate, and her flirtation with Eben escalates tension.

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