MGM
Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Season Hubley is kidnapped by Tennessee hillbillies who mistake her for the teenage bride of one of the members of a family they are feuding with over land. Their family is headed by the hard drinking patriarch Rod Steiger, and they live in near-squalor. Meanwhile, the family across the way is more upstanding, headed by a thoughtful, respectable Robert Ryan. The teenage sons of both families like to play practical jokes, but turns deadly serious when one of Steiger's boys rapes Ryan's only daughter. Hubley has fallen in love with Jeff Bridges, about the only reasonable member of the Steiger family, but he gets pulled into the confrontation over the rape and turns out to be no better than the rest. Intense, violent, backwoods melodrama with a dream cast of youthful stars, but still melodrama at the end of the day. Shot on location in eastern Tennessee.
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