Product Description
A Mississippi town boss pairs his daughter with a dangerous drifter. Directed by Martin Ritt. Based on Faulkner stories.
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Paul Newman has his glorious youthful swagger in this southern-fried melodrama, which marked his first picture with Joanne Woodward (they married after shooting ended). The script is a melange of William Faulkner stories, although it appears more under the influence of Tennessee Williams and Picnic than the Nobel Prize winner. Drifter Newman catches the eye of schoolmarm Woodward and her father, a rural Mississippi bigshot (Orson Welles). This is not one of Welles's better moments; he appears to be conducting make-up experiments. There is some enjoyable flapdoodle along the way, in the Freud-meets-Gone with the Wind manner of '50s southern cooking, but the ending is embarrassingly compromised. The same production team would leave out the box-office concessions a few years later on Hud. A studly Newman justifies this description of his character: "I wish I was Ben Quick. He's got the whole state of Mississippi to graze on." --Robert Horton
- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 5.3 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Director : Martin Ritt
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 55 minutes
- Release date : May 11, 2004
- Actors : Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : Unqualified, English (Stereo), French (Mono)
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- Writers : Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch, William Faulkner
- Number of discs : 1
