Year End 2013
Looking back over 2013, the most significant titles in my disk viewing have been imported from England or released by […]
Review: Hurry Sundown (1967)
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks,
Michael Caine
Jane Fonda
John Phillip Law
Diahann Carroll
Robert Hooks
Plot: Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.
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