Hurry Sundown (1967)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.6/10   

Director:

Otto Preminger

Escritores:

Horton Foote (writer)
Bert Gilden (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

9 febrero 1967 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

An explosive film. Its young stars are dynamite!

Plot:

Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland...

Plot Keywords:

Mammy | Racism | Singing | American South | Black American

Premios:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Incredible cast in flaccid racial melodrama...

Reparto

Michael Caine	...	Henry Warren
Loring Smith	...	Thomas Elwell
Peter Goff	...	Lipscomb
Jane Fonda	...	Julie Ann Warren
George Kennedy	...	Sheriff Coombs
John Phillip Law	...	Rad McDowell
Luke Askew	...	Dolph Higginson
Robert Hooks	...	Reeve Scott
Beah Richards	...	Rose Scott
Burgess Meredith	...	Judge Purcell
Donna Danton	...	Sukie Purcell
Madeleine Sherwood	...	Eula Purcell
Frank Converse	...	Reverend Clem De Lavery
William Elder	...	Bishop
Steve Sanders	...	Charles McDowell

También conocida como:

La noche deseada (Spain) [es]

Duración:

146 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:A | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Compañía:

Otto Preminger Films

Trivialidades:

One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.

Errores:

Anacronismos: In one scene as the camera pans down the street, a later model Ford can be seen in a carport.

Citas:

Rose Scott: Sometin's ailin' you, Reeve.
Reeve Scott: No, Mama.
Rose Scott: Well, sometin's hasn't changed your mood since breakfast. Tell me.
Reeve Scott: Mama, you better dan anyo' dat radar dey had out in de Souf Pacific.
Rose Scott: I don' know nothin' 'bout radar, but I know when sometin's plaguin' ma chile.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)

Banda de Sonido:

Dont Bother Me

Incredible cast in flaccid racial melodrama...

Lousy Otto Preminger film from K. B. Gilden's bestseller (adapted by Thomas C. Ryan and, of all people, Horton Foote!) concerns a greedy white land-owner in Georgia planning to dupe his wife's black guardian and her sharecropper husband out of their real estate, setting off a race war. Everyone is here, from Faye Dunaway to Brady dad Robert Reed, but the script is such a mess--and Preminger is so ham-handed--that nobody survives "Sundown" without looking foolish. Jane Fonda flirts with husband Michael Caine using his saxophone (!) while Beah Richards pantomimes a heart attack as if this were a stage-play. Preminger goes out of his way to make the rich whites hissable and despicable and the black folk saintly and reasonable--so much so that the picture might have started its own race war in 1967 (probably the exact type of controversy the director really wanted, only the movie was a flop). It certainly gave work to lots of under-employed, sensational actors like Madeleine Sherwood, Diahann Carroll, Rex Ingram, and Jim Backus, but results are pretty laughable. *1/2 from ****