Hurry sundown [videorecording] / Otto Preminger presents ; Sigma Productions, Inc. ; screenplay by Thomas C. Ryan and Horton Foote ; produced and directed by Otto Preminger.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: OF248 | Olive FilmsPublication details: [United States] : [Distributed by] Olive Films, c2011.Description: 1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inUniform titles: - Hurry sundown (Motion picture)
- Directors of photography, Milton Krasner, Loyal Griggs ; editors, Louis R. Loeffler, James D. Wells ; music, Hugo Montenegro.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on a novel by K.B. Gilden.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966 and released in 1967 by Paramount; DVD release date: May. 17, 2011.
Directors of photography, Milton Krasner, Loyal Griggs ; editors, Louis R. Loeffler, James D. Wells ; music, Hugo Montenegro.
John Phillip Law, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Robert Hooks, Burgess Meredith, Faye Dunaway, Diahann Carroll, George Kennedy.
About racial prejudice and emotional unrest in 1940s Georgia. Henry Warren is an unscrupulous and racist landowner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. Blocking his path are sharecroppers Rod McDowell and Reeve Scott, one white and one black.
Not rated.
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen.