The Sound and the Fury ** (1959, Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton) – Classic Movie Review 9183
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 by a miscast Yul Brynner (with hair!) as Jason Compson, the cruel patriarch of a Mississippi family in trouble. Margaret Leighton plays Caddy Compson, a nymphomaniac with an illegitimate daughter, Quentin Compson (Joanne Woodward) and the latter finds temporary love with Charlie Busch (Stuart Whitman), a circus man with a roving life and eye to match.
Also in the cast are Ethel Waters, Jack Warden, Albert Dekker, Françoise Rosay, John Beal, Steven Perry [Stephen Perry], William Gunn and Roy Glenn.
Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr adapt William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury.
The Sound and the Fury is directed by Martin Ritt, runs 110 minutes, is made by Jerry Wald Productions and Twentieth Century Fox, is released by 20th Century Fox, is written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr, based on William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury, is shot in widescreen and Deluxe Color by Charles G Clarke, is produced by Jerry Wald and is scored by Alex North.
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