Hurry Sundown (1967)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 146m
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith
Synopsis:
After WW2, a jumped-up shrimp fisherman marries into Georgian land and tries to get a monopoly on irrigation beds by force-selling the parcels not belonging to him. One is owned by a returning soldier, the other by a negro family, but he and his wife are linked to both by bonds of affection which his greed corrupts.
Review:
Otto Preminger's Southern racial drama certainly has lip smacking moments, not least in George Kennedy's hypocritical sheriff, but misfires on so many levels it is impossible to be taken seriously, unless you are insulted by it. In no way does Law look like someone who has just been through the Second World War, the hopelessly miscast Caine's southern drawl was doubtless Daniel Craig's inspiration for Knives Out, and Meredith's bigoted judge is positively pantomimic. Cf. The Chase (1966), which it resembles in themes, casting and setting, but whose hothouse atmosphere it totally fails to achieve. On the plus side, Preminger clearly wishing to chalk up another censorship-breaking first, it has no less than two scenes of simulated fellatio, one of which (Fonda's) on an adroitly placed saxophone.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 146m
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith
Synopsis:
After WW2, a jumped-up shrimp fisherman marries into Georgian land and tries to get a monopoly on irrigation beds by force-selling the parcels not belonging to him. One is owned by a returning soldier, the other by a negro family, but he and his wife are linked to both by bonds of affection which his greed corrupts.
Review:
Otto Preminger's Southern racial drama certainly has lip smacking moments, not least in George Kennedy's hypocritical sheriff, but misfires on so many levels it is impossible to be taken seriously, unless you are insulted by it. In no way does Law look like someone who has just been through the Second World War, the hopelessly miscast Caine's southern drawl was doubtless Daniel Craig's inspiration for Knives Out, and Meredith's bigoted judge is positively pantomimic. Cf. The Chase (1966), which it resembles in themes, casting and setting, but whose hothouse atmosphere it totally fails to achieve. On the plus side, Preminger clearly wishing to chalk up another censorship-breaking first, it has no less than two scenes of simulated fellatio, one of which (Fonda's) on an adroitly placed saxophone.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 146m
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith
Synopsis:
After WW2, a jumped-up shrimp fisherman marries into Georgian land and tries to get a monopoly on irrigation beds by force-selling the parcels not belonging to him. One is owned by a returning soldier, the other by a negro family, but he and his wife are linked to both by bonds of affection which his greed corrupts.
Review:
Otto Preminger's Southern racial drama certainly has lip smacking moments, not least in George Kennedy's hypocritical sheriff, but misfires on so many levels it is impossible to be taken seriously, unless you are insulted by it. In no way does Law look like someone who has just been through the Second World War, the hopelessly miscast Caine's southern drawl was doubtless Daniel Craig's inspiration for Knives Out, and Meredith's bigoted judge is positively pantomimic. Cf. The Chase (1966), which it resembles in themes, casting and setting, but whose hothouse atmosphere it totally fails to achieve. On the plus side, Preminger clearly wishing to chalk up another censorship-breaking first, it has no less than two scenes of simulated fellatio, one of which (Fonda's) on an adroitly placed saxophone.