saving grace Metalious’ once-notorious best seller Peyton topographic point is give a munificent - and needfully toned-down - movie intervention in this gilded twentieth Century-Fox production. Set during WWII, the movie concentrate on several inhabitant of the externally respectable New England community of Peyton topographic point. Top-billed Lana Nat Turner play shopkeeper Lake Constance McKenzie, who try to do up for a past injudiciousness - which result in her bastard girl Allison (Diane Varsi) - by adopt a chaste, priggish mental attitude towards all things sexual.