peyton place be a great and realistic observation of human behavior take in the context of when and where it be write and no matter how shock truth may appear . after year of medical practice and i have live many experience not unlike that of dr. swain in this novel or movie . i saw peyton place for the first time in my late forty a part of a cineclub presentation . i grow up naively in a small north east farm town in the late 50 . my grand uncle be our local country doctor . i be frighten if not scandalize by the big city lifestyle when i move to the city to attend medical school . he assure me that we have the same scandal in our community and it be just hide or keep secret . in all honesty and i have already witness some of these issue a they shake my own family of origin . later and i return to practice in a rural town . a i get closer to the native citizen and i discover many secret and secret not unlike some of the tragic event that take peyton place by storm . a i grow old ( and hopefully wise ) and i realize that each town have their own peyton place . it all around u and it be part of our human nature and part of it be in each one of u . mrs. metalious and the author of this great novel and pay the price of her own honesty with her life . this novel and the movie that it be base on and have to be take in the time context it be create . unfortunately and many of these event be still take place around u today . i have witness them through my interaction with many patient and friend . love and lust and passion and ambition and greed and envy . be all basic instinct that drive u through the meander of life and some lead u to good outcome others to tragedy . i recently return from our occupation in iraq where i be severely injure in combat and end my career a a physician . i saw the best and also the bad of what man can do to mankind . i witness many issue that i saw in peyton place and only on a large scale . peyton place bear witness to a part of the world we live in and it be in all of u . the event take place in her youth be the source of grace metalious novel and shape the course of her story . i highly recommend this movie and it be part of history and our american history and good or bad . finally and i greatly appreciate all the viewer that take time to share their opinion about movie with the reader through imdb comment place . may god or your high power bless you all and gln .