Hurry Sundown
They are dynamite in love and in anger!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 17, 2011
- Originally Released: 1967
- Label: Olive Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Faye Dunaway, Robert Hooks & Burgess Meredith | |
Performer: | George Kennedy, Loring Smith, Luke Askew, Beah Richards, Jim Backus, Robert Reed, Madeleine Sherwood, Frank Converse & Rex Ingram | |
Directed by | Otto Preminger | |
Screenwriting by | Horton Foote & Thomas C. Ryan | |
Composition by | Hugo Montenegro | |
Produced by | Otto Preminger | |
Director of Photography: | Loyal Griggs & Milton R. Krasner |
Entertainment Reviews:
The last of Preminger's overblown adaptations of best-sellers, this may have a lot more juice than sustenance, but at least Preminger keeps the juices flowing.
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Chicago Reader
The Preminger flair which made The Cardinal so enjoyable, despite its hackneyed script, seems to have deserted him in this lumbering melodrama.
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Time Out
Rating: 1/4 --
Preminger always seemed to attract heavyweight actors for lightweight films.
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TV Guide
[T]he results, pretensions of the time aside, are saucy, outrageous and so self-knowing that it seems due for a camp rediscovery.
Sight and Sound
What's tiring about the film is less these strangely old-fashioned lurches into melodrama (the date is supposed to be 1916: it hardly feels like it) than the self-importance of its attitudes.
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The Spectator
An outstanding, tasteful but hard-hitting, and handsomely-produced film.
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Variety
You'll come away feeling that although it's worthy in its ideals, it could have done with a touch less overblown melodrama.
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Film4
Product Description:
Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in the Deep South. Henry Warren (Michael Caine) is a land owner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. However, two parcels of land have escaped his reach, and he's determined to get them. The Scotts, an African-American family, own one of the lots that Henry is after; the matriarch of the family, Rose (Beah Richards), used to work as a servant for the family of Henry's wife, Julie Ann (Jane Fonda), so Henry sends Julie Ann to talk with her. However, not only doesn't Rose agree to sell, she gets so upset that she dies of a heart attack, and soon her headstrong son Reeve (Robert Hooks) is the owner of the land. Reeve refuses all of Henry's offers to sell out, and he even stands up to a racist lynch mob that tries to ransack his farm; when Henry attempts to prove that Reeve holds no legal deed to the property, Vivian Thurlow (Diahann Carroll), the town's black schoolmarm, is able to provide the documentation that the Scotts do indeed own their land. Meanwhile, Henry is also trying to buy some property farmed by Rod McDowell (John Phillip Law) and his wife Lou (Faye Dunnaway), a poor white couple who are Henry's cousins. The McDowell farm adjoins that owned by the Scotts, so Reeve and Rod agree to join forces against Henry, which leads to violent reprisals against them. While set in Georgia, HURRY SUNDOWN was actually shot on location in Louisiana; it was the first film shot in the South with an integrated cast and crew, leading the producers to demand protection from State Troopers after members of the company received death threats.
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- Sales Rank: 16,758
- UPC: 887090024808
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