Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

ksf-2 Otto Preminger....one year before Skidoo (which you HAVE to see if you haven't seen it. he even uses some of the same cast in Sundown... John Law, Burgess Meredith). The weirdest part of this whole thing is star Michael Caine trying to do a southern accent. Some fun names in this one.. Jim Backus, George Kennedy, Robert Reed, Jane Fonda. It's post WW II, and the land developers are buying up all the land for a housing development. Of course, there are two holdouts, and one of them is African American. And this town is dealing with serious racial tensions. Pretty much everyone has to choose a side. The married couple, the Warrens, (Fonda and Caine) are battling over trying to convince the black family to sell their property, where Mrs. Warren's mammy still lives. This one is very different from some of Preminger's other wacky films; a pretty serious drama, tackling some serious issues of the time. especially in the south, where this takes place. The story is pretty uneven, and everyone's performance is over the top. One bright spot was the singing they were doing in Reeve's house. of course, the it sounded like a lot more voices than the few that were in the room, but it was quite pretty. If you haven't seen this, its worth it to see all those big names in 1967. It IS available on DVD from Olive Films, but I have not seen this one on Turner Classics.

sekjr0521 This is a sensational film, well-done, beautifully portrayed, and backed by an incredibly beautiful score by Hugo Montenegro.Look for the Hurry Sundown Suite on Youtube... It is just beautiful!Burgess Merideth steals the show with his role, and his wife is something else!!!Try to get a copy if you can and enjoy the witty script! You will be overwhelmed with the emotional portrayals. This is a feel-good movie, and a solid story! It is hard to believe that stuff like this actually happened!!!Unfortunately, I can only assume you can't see it on TV today because of the use of the 'N' word - which doesn't bother ME a bit! Some people have such feint hearts...

esolis20041 The job of an actor is to find 'THE' moment in his/her material and to stir the audience in either dramatic or comic terms. All the negatives and some positives have already been stated in this column about "Hurry Sundown." However, no one has bothered to really tell about the actress who plays Rose. Her name was Beah Richards, best remembered by some as Sidney Poitier's mother in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." Ms. Richards has lingered in my memory since I saw "Hurry Sundown" in the theatre all those years ago. Her performance is monumental here, although, the material, as already stated by many, stunk as skunk! She 'rose' over all the 'stars' in this sorrowful piece to create her memorable portrait. The only reason I'd want to see this film on DVD would be to see her amazing performance once again. Ms. Richards truly found that moment to stir the emotions in an otherwise poorly conceived film.

moonspinner55 Lousy Otto Preminger film from K. B. Gilden's bestseller (adapted by Thomas C. Ryan and, of all people, Horton Foote!) concerns a greedy white land-owner in Georgia planning to dupe his wife's black guardian and her sharecropper husband out of their real estate, setting off a race war. Everyone is here, from Faye Dunaway to Brady dad Robert Reed, but the script is such a mess--and Preminger is so ham-handed--that nobody survives "Sundown" without looking foolish. Jane Fonda flirts with husband Michael Caine using his saxophone (!) while Beah Richards pantomimes a heart attack as if this were a stage-play. Preminger goes out of his way to make the rich whites despicable and the black folk saintly and reasonable--so much so that the picture might have started its own race war in 1967 (probably the exact type of controversy the director wanted). It certainly gave work to many underemployed, sensational actors like Madeleine Sherwood, Diahann Carroll, Rex Ingram and Jim Backus, but results are laughable. *1/2 from ****