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This engaging follow-up to Grace Metalious’ best-seller is a study in big-time
ambition and small-town narrow-mindedness.
Peyton Place residents are up in arms
after Allison MacKenzie (Carol Lynley) writes a scandalous novel whose
characters and events closely mirror those in her hometown. Even her
stepfather’s (Robert Sterling) position as high school principal is threatened
after he refuses to remove her book from the school’s library.
But the
controversy doesn’t end there - in Manhattan editing her book, Mackenzie is
tempted to become involved with her married publisher (Jeff Chandler), while
back in the small town, a miserable matriarch (Mary Astor) tries to destroy her
son’s marriage because of her own bigotry.
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