Hurry Sundown

Released Feb 9, 1967

2h 26m

Drama

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22%

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9 Reviews

29%

Audience Score

100+ Ratings

After World War II, two poor Southern families block a land developer's (Michael Caine) plan.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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.

May 8, 2013

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Tom Milne

Time Out

The Preminger flair which made The Cardinal so enjoyable, despite its hackneyed script, seems to have deserted him in this lumbering melodrama.

May 8, 2013

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Variety Staff

Variety

An outstanding, tasteful but hard-hitting, and handsomely-produced film.

May 8, 2013

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Wilfrid Sheed

Esquire Magazine

So low has the South fallen that Otto Preminger hasn't even bothered to get the accents straight.

Feb 6, 2020

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Penelope Houston

The Spectator

What's tiring about the film is less these strangely old-fashioned lurches into melodrama (the date is supposed to be 1916: it hardly feels like it) than the self-importance of its attitudes.

Jul 6, 2018

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Film4 Staff

Film4

You'll come away feeling that although it's worthy in its ideals, it could have done with a touch less overblown melodrama.

May 8, 2013

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Mike P

Despite it's impressive cast and director; this is really just a highfalutin ripoff of Gone With The Wind.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/24

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Jerry R

I never understood the great dislike/hate peoples have for this movie. For it was a sweeping tale of America. The morose rich, the un-loved, the people trying to make a living and provide for their families. It has everything. I saw this before I knew these people were big in film.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/07/23

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delysid d

soapy movie about the south where none of the actors are southern. micheal caine doing a southern accent. i was confused by this one.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/06/22

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Audience Member

Deep South in its plenity, with erotism, race fight, power and complicity entangled.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

Absolutely terrible acting. I was so disappointed. Look at that talent! Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, etc. It's ridiculous that this film should come off so dry, so lifeless when it deals with subject matter so emotionally chaotic and contentious. Beah Richards was the one actor in the film capable of being faithful to this subject matter. Her performance moved me and I was saddened when she left the film so early, because all quality went with her.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

A movie with race-relations, and moral agendas, but none of the film is inaccurate. Nothing amazing, but some entertaining stereotypical caricatures, well-acted.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Synopsis

After World War II, two poor Southern families block a land developer's (Michael Caine) plan.

Director: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Screenwriter: Horton Foote, Bert Gilden, Katya Gilden, Thomas C. Ryan
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Sigma
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 1967, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 12, 2014
Runtime: 2h 26m
Sound Mix: Mono

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