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...Sound and the Fury. A laundered but effective version of Faulkner's novel about a hard man (Yul Brynner) and a wild, bewildered girl (Joanne Woodward) who fight each other as well as the genteel Southern decay around them...
...Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel, disinfected but still getting the best movie treatment of any of his works...
...Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel disinfected, but still given the best movie treatment yet of any of his works...
...Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel turned into a sort of magnolia-strewn Jane Eyre; excellent acting by Joanne Woodward Yul Brynner and Margaret Leighton...
Certainly he gives indications he will provide. Set in a place somewhere in Louisiana that is not altogether unlike a Williams, a Faulkner, a Welty locale, Kopit's play concerns the visit of an old school friend to the home of a robust insurance man, his supremely sensitive wife, and their brattish children. The visitor, Emmanuel Moon, a graciously sinister spectre, says he has come to collect on an adolescent promise made by George "Chopper" Feering, a raging "bull" who raised living standards in the country by convincing dying old men to buy insurance instead of medical care...