Monday, April 14, 2014

Hurry Sundown (1967)


Paramount Pictures
Directed by Otto Preminger
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Olive Films)

In a small Georgia town just after the war, one man tries to force two families, one black and one white, to sell their farms so he can make a fortune in housing developments. He uses his wife, his influence with a local judge and sheriff, the good ole boys with shotguns, but they all fail. His attempt at revenge leads to tragedy. Michael Caine and Jane Fonda are miscast as the horribly unhappy couple with the most annoying kid in cinema history. This southern melodrama filled with racists, sexual innuendos and more dynamite blasting than a roadrunner cartoon just goes on and on for nearly 2 and a half hours.

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