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Director George Marshall’s 1948 Tap Roots is a bloodless Mississippi-set Civil War romantic drama with Susan Hayward and Van Heflin emoting to little effect as lovers, Southern belle Morna Dabney and Keith Alexander, trying to […]
Director Peter Glenville’s fiery 1962 drama of repressed love Summer and Smoke offers more Tennessee Williams Southern poetic passion, with Geraldine Page grabbing her chance to repeat her off-Broadway role as a hurt and fading […]
William Faulkner’s Deep South tour-de-force novel comes to the screen in the diligent but shaky 1959 film The Sound and the Fury from director Martin Ritt. At its centre is a committed but struggling performance […]
Edward Anderson’s 1937 novel Thieves Like Us forms the basis of two brilliant, contrasting films, and it was first filmed in 1949 as a beautiful poetic black-and-white film noir by Nicholas Ray as They Live by […]
John Wayne’s mentor and friend John Ford recommended him to director Raoul Walsh to star in this eventful, huge-budget epic 1930 Western as Breck Coleman, the wise scout of the wagon train of pioneers edging […]
Director Sydney Pollack 1966 dysfunctional family romantic drama is typical Tennessee Williams fare, though his two-hander, one-act play is merely the starting point of a more ambitious movie screenplay co-written by the young Francis Coppola. […]
Director Alan Parker’s burning 1988 thriller stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as FBI agents with greatly conflicting styles investigating suspected Ku Klux Klan murders of three young civil rights activists in the American Deep South […]