Parrish
“Looking for something. Wanting everything. Troy Donahue brings new passion to the screen as Parrish.”
1961 · 2 h 18 min
Cast
Claudette Colbert 
Troy Donahue 
Karl Malden 
Dean Jagger 
Connie Stevens 
Diane McBain
Credits
Written by: 
Delmer Daves
Plot
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Salahan's Connecticut tobacco farm, and faces rival families and a romance.
Sinekatalog’s take
Delmer Daves's drama, with Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert and Karl Malden, is lush and melodramatic, a soap of the early 1960s.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.5 / 10 (1,354 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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