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Jerry R @Jerryr439 10/07/2023 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. See more delysid d @RT67044741 03/06/2022 soapy movie about the south where none of the actors are southern. micheal caine doing a southern accent. i was confused by this one. See more Emilio T @MilloTPue 02/06/2020 Deep South in its plenity, with erotism, race fight, power and complicity entangled. See more 08/17/2013 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. See more 07/10/2013 A movie with race-relations, and moral agendas, but none of the film is inaccurate. Nothing amazing, but some entertaining stereotypical caricatures, well-acted. See more 03/10/2012 I pretty much agree with Jay Nixon about this sweaty sexual and racial drama but not the part about Doug Sirk being a more obvious choice for director: both Sirk and Preminger had auteurist champions (e.g. Andrew Sarris), and although it's true Sirk brought a touch of class to soap opera, this is not such a film. It is a fairly good portrait of sharecropper misery and landowner excess, including the then-controversial sequence in which Jane Fonda plays a sax organ from a position between Michael Caine's legs. (A few years earlier the same director shocked audiences with "The Moon is Blue" with its realistic depiction of an attempt to seduce a real live "virgin"!) I doubted anyone, certainly not Paramount, would transfers these Dixie doings to DVD, but Olive Films did so, politically incorrect dialogue intact. (Look, and listen, for the scene in which Burgess Meredith refers to a mature African-American as "an ugly, syphilitic old n----r woman." At the time the film was released civil rights were still very much on the minds of Americans, and this film might be seen as a companion piece to the much inferior "Mandingo," released about the same time. This one at least avoids stereotypical, cardboard characters, and John Phillip Law did his best acting here. (I was a fan.) See more Read all reviews

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