- Drama
- 115 min
- NR
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Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20247/10
This reminded me a little of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1954) with Paul Newman playing the roguish "Quick" who arrives in a small town, dominated by the "Varner" family and quickly tries to ingratiate himself into their wealthy ways. They, indeed the whole town, are dominated by the patriarchal "Will" (Orson Welles) who seems determined that his daughter "Clara" (Joanne Woodward) will marry local dullard "Stewart" (Richard Anderson). She, on the other hand, takes an instant shine to the newcomer and when brother, and general loafer, "Jody" (Anthony Franciosa) starts to feel a little threatened by this man who is seemingly of much more interest to his father than he is, things start to become a little tense around the place - to say the least. It's a small point, but the audio from Welles isn't the best and sometimes its quite difficult to make out what he's saying, but as the family dynamic becomes more strained and the backstory fills in a tale of a group of people for whom it's really only money that has become the thing that matters now - we end up with a characterful study of avarice and ambition tempered with some dark humour and an increasingly engaging effort from Welles and a
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Cast
- Paul NewmanBen Quick
- Joanne WoodwardClara Varner
- Anthony FranciosaJody Varner
- Orson WellesWill Varner
- Lee RemickEula Varner
- Angela LansburyMinnie Littlejohn
- Richard AndersonAlan Stewart
- Sarah MarshallAgnes Stewart
- Mabel AlbertsonElizabeth Stewart
- J. Pat O'MalleyRatliff
Crew
- Martin RittDirector
- Irving RavetchScreenplay
- Harriet Frank Jr.Screenplay
- William FaulknerNovel
- Joseph LaShelleDirector of Photography
- Alex NorthOriginal Music Composer
- Louis R. LoefflerEditor
- Jerry WaldProducer
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