Directed by:
Otto PremingerComposer:
Hugo MontenegroCast:
Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, George Kennedy, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway, Luke Askew, Loring Smith, Beah Richards (more)VOD (1)
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Henry Warren (Michael Caine) 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 (John Phillip Law) and Reeve Scott (Robert Hooks), one white and one black. Otto Preminger directs this epic adaptation of K.B. Gilden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in 1940s Georgia. (Via Vision Entertainment)
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In 1967, the American cinema was apparently driven by shooting sex scenes till you literally see some blood. Because every time, I felt as if the guys raped the girls immediately after the cut. Everything was weirdly stiff and awfully aggressive. Like, for example, Michael Cane. He looked like quite the choleric when he was young and when you watch him kiss Jane Fonda, it almost seemed as if she was trying to back away and not at all like she wanted to kiss him back. As far as the story goes, it was also awfully mediocre and typically naïve – exactly what I hate in American cinematography.
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