Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Hurry Sundown
They are dynamite in love and in anger!
1967 · 2h 26m · Approved
Drama
Directed by
Otto Preminger
Overview
A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.
Director and cast
- Otto Preminger Director
- Michael Caine as Henry Warren
- Jane Fonda as Julie Ann Warren
- John Phillip Law as Rad McDowell
- Diahann Carroll as Vivian Thurlow
- Robert Hooks as Reeve Scott
- Faye Dunaway as Lou McDowell
- Burgess Meredith as Judge Purcell
- Loring Smith as Thomas Elwell
- George Kennedy as Sheriff Coombs
- Luke Askew as Dolph Higginson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
22%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The Preminger flair which made The Cardinal so enjoyable, despite its hackneyed script, seems to have deserted him in this lumbering melodrama.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
An outstanding, tasteful but hard-hitting, and handsomely-produced film.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Hurry Sundown is a gigantic masquerade in which the participants put on two things: a Southern accent and the audience.
TIME Magazine
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