Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 10, 2019 6:56:21 GMT
love these american films about big families and raw american power. usually set in small towns. about family rivalries, town politics set in the backdrop of beautiful landscapes. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, WILD RIVER are other examples. these films seem to be elegiac. this film has a huge star cast with PAUL NEWMAN, LEE REMICK and ORSON WELLES. MARTIN RITT brought the best of out of NEWMAN with HUD and this one. NEWMAN plays a tough as nails "barn burning" character who arrives at the mansion of a wealthy missisippi family and impresses the patriarch (WELLES) with his wily ways. this turns his daughter and son against the newcomer. this is a really long drama (almost two hours long). the happy sugary ending was quite unexpected though.
(8/10)