Hehkuva kesä was released in the year 1958。Hehkuva kesä is also called as The Long, Hot Summer, Mercador de Almas, Lunga estate calda, Largo y cálido verano, Largo y ardiente verano, Lange heiße Sommer, het sommar, Lång, Feux de l'été。

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs of him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.

Hehkuva kesä actors and actresses include Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, Orson Welles。