Hurry Sundown 1967

Hurry Sundown

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Movie Info

After World War II, two poor Southern families block a land developer's (Michael Caine) plan.
  • Genre:
    drama
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Otto Preminger
  • Producer:
    Otto Preminger
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     original
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  • Production Co:
    Sigma
  • Sound Mix:
    Mono

Cast

Michael Caine
as Henry Warren
Jane Fonda
as Julie Ann Warren
John Phillip Law
as Rad McDowell
Robert Hooks
as Reeve Scott
Loring Smith
as Thomas Elwell
Peter Goff
as Lipscomb
George Kennedy
as Sheriff Coombs
Luke Askew
as Dolph Higginson
Beah Richards
as Rose Scott
Burgess Meredith
as Judge Purcell
Madeleine Sherwood
as Eula Purcell
Donna Danton
as Sukie Purcell
Frank Converse
as Rev. Clem De Lavery
William Elder
as Bishop
Steve Sanders (IX)
as Charles McDowell
Faye Dunaway
as Lou McDowell
Dawn Barcelona
as Ruby McDowell
David Sanders
as Wyatt McDowell
Michael Henry Roth
as Timmy McDowell
Gene Rutherford
Gladys Newman
as Mrs. Coombs
Bill Hart
as Hunt Club Member
Joan Parks
as Kissie
John Mark
as Colie Warren
Dean Smith
as Hunt Club Member
Diahann Carroll
as Vivian Thurlow
Rex Ingram
as Prof. Thurlow
Doro Merande
as Ada Hemmings
Jim Backus
as Carter Sillens
Robert C. Bloodwell
as Ozzie Higginson
Charles Keel
as Kenny
Ross Kelly
as Dottie
Ada Hall Covington
as Clara
Robert Reed
as Lars Finchley
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Critic Reviews for Hurry Sundown

All Critics (9) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (7)

  • The last of Preminger's overblown adaptations of best-sellers, this may have a lot more juice than sustenance, but at least Preminger keeps the juices flowing.

    May 8, 2013 | Full Review…

    Jonathan Rosenbaum

    Chicago Reader
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  • The Preminger flair which made The Cardinal so enjoyable, despite its hackneyed script, seems to have deserted him in this lumbering melodrama.

    May 8, 2013 | Full Review…

    Tom Milne

    Time Out
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  • An outstanding, tasteful but hard-hitting, and handsomely-produced film.

    May 8, 2013 | Full Review…

    Variety Staff

    Variety
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  • Hurry Sundown is a gigantic masquerade in which the participants put on two things: a Southern accent and the audience.

    May 8, 2013 | Full Review…
    TIME Magazine
    Top Critic

  • Otto Preminger's Hurry Sundown is a frustrating case, not good but not particularly bad, with a smokescreen of controversy surrounding it and obscuring its real faults.

    May 8, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

    Roger Ebert

    Chicago Sun-Times
    Top Critic

  • So low has the South fallen that Otto Preminger hasn't even bothered to get the accents straight.

    February 6, 2020 | Full Review…

    Wilfrid Sheed

    Esquire Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Hurry Sundown

  • Jul 10, 2013
    A movie with race-relations, and moral agendas, but none of the film is inaccurate. Nothing amazing, but some entertaining stereotypical caricatures, well-acted.
    Pamela D Super Reviewer
  • Nov 18, 2010
    This mint julep melodrama is a hooty delight. I suppose that at the time it was meant to shine a light on racial injustice but it just comes off as a overbaked soap opera. Preminger was the wrong director for such a piece of honeyed excess, this is the type of thing at which Douglas Sirk excelled and could make trenchant observations while still entertaining the masses. Still worth watching for the cast alone. Jane Fonda gives the most enjoyable performance even if her honeychile accent comes and goes. And even as a sharecropper's wife with four kids Faye Dunaway manages to look ravishing.
    jay n Super Reviewer
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