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...late '50's and early '60's, Preminger turned to social spectacle (Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Advice and Consent, The Cardinal). His latest movie, Hurry Sundown, has in fact prompted many critics to suggest that what Preminger did for the Jew in Exodus and for the Catholic in The Cardinal--whatever that is--he is now doing for the American Negro. But viewed as a picture about race relations, Hurry Sundown is meaningless and banal. The great social dilemmas of the age have somehow passed Otto Preminger by the way, and his perceptions seem no longer relevant...
...Hurry Sundown is a gigantic masquerade in which the participants put on two things: a Southern accent and the audience. Based on K. B. Gilden's 1965 bestseller, Hurry Sundown examines Georgia's effluent society after World War II. Its focus is the fortunes and follies of the Warren family, a sorry collection of scapegraces and scapegoats. Henry, played by England's Michael Caine with a surprisingly plausible spoonbread locution, is a draft-dodging mongrel. He aims to become a real estate mogul by grabbing passels of farm land from his soldier-cousin Rad (John Phillip...
Obviously, Hurry Sundown was intended as a paean to racial justice, but Producer-Director Otto Preminger chooses strange ways to display his big brotherhood. One sequence shows Negro sharecroppers singing a white-eyed hallelujah number reminiscent of those '40s films that pretended to liberalize but patently patronized. Two hours of such cinematic clichés make the viewer intolerant of everyone in the film, regardless of race, creed or color...
Brandy at Sundown. A generation ago, it had seemed possible that the original pioneer settler, a Scot named Ferris, might have made an outpost of civilization in this ill-favored wilderness. He had cleared the bush, trained the natives in animal husbandry and domestic service, imported the piano, the chandelier, the stone lions at the stoep, wine glasses and even books. In the hands of Ferris' son, a potbellied boor named Archie, things fall apart-both literally and figuratively. The piano sinks through the termite-ridden floor, the chandelier is unlit, the glasses are broken, the cattle...
...role as the bemused, workaday spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File shot him to sudden international splendor, Caine, 33, has appeared in four films, of which three-Funeral in Berlin, Alfie and Gambit-are among the nation's top box-office draws. A fifth picture, Hurry Sundown, with Jane Fonda, opened last week in Los Angeles. Now in Finland filming another Harry Palmer adventure, Billion-Dollar Brain, Caine carries enough professional clout to order the movie shot upside down if he chooses...