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Hurry Sundown (1967)

Hurry Sundown poster
Directed by
Otto Preminger
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 26m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A land dispute in the post-World War II American South causes conflict between two families. The story shows the tensions around race and power in a rural community.

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What happens

Hurry Sundown is a 1967 American drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Jane Fonda and Michael Caine. The screenplay by Horton Foote and Thomas C. Ryan is based on the 1965 novel of the same title by K.B. Gilden, a pseudonym for the married couple Katya and Bert Gilden. It marked Faye Dunaway's film debut. The film is considered a Southern Gothic work. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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