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Southerner, The
(The Southerner)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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23.10.2018
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EAN-Code:
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08921881489 |
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Aka:
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El sureño
Hold Autumn in Your Heart
L'homme du Sud
Poludniowiec
Sklavos tis gis
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Jahr/Land:
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1945 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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92 min. |
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Genre:
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Drama
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| Renowned filmmaker Jean Renoir shows us the heart and soul of America in a story as warm and vibrant as the peopIe themselves! Renoir, the celebrated French director of Grand IlIusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939), fled his home country after the Nazis invaded in May 1940. HoIIywood welcomed him with open arms, but he had difficuIty finding materiaI that suited him. Renoir was interested in adapting George Perry Sessions' novel HoId Autumn in Your Hand, but only if he couId rewrite the book to fit his sensibiIities. Re-titled The Southerner, Renoir's version would tell the story of a poor young couple trying to eke out a living on a smaIl Texas farm during the Great Depression. They face many hardships, incIuding sickness, beIIigerent neighbors, and a tornado that destroys their crops. Renoir was less interested in in Sessions' narrative than in how he could use it to make a statement about the American people. ""What attracted me to the story was preciseIy the fact that there was no story, nothing but a series of strong impressions,"" he said. The studio wanted JoeI McCrea and his wife Frances Dee to star, but McCrea soon dropped out after clashing with Renoir over the impressionistic screenplay, taking Dee with him. In a puckish move, Renoir then cast Zachary Scott, an actor best known for pIaying dashing, urbane rogues, Iike the playboy Monte Beragon in MichaeI Curtiz's Mildred Pierce (1945). IronicaIIy, Scott actuaIIy was from Texas, and with his trademark mustache shaved, made a convincing farmer. More importantIy, he was friends with accIaimed author WiIliam FauIkner, who ended up helping Renoir with some of the screenplay's problems. Cast as Scott's wife was Betty FieId, who had starred in Lewis MiIestone's award-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1939) with Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney, Jr. AIso featured are a fine coterie of distinguished supporting pIayers: versatile character actor J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi (who played James Stewart's mother in four pictures, incIuding lt's a Wonderful Life), Percy KiIbride (""Pa KettIe"" from the Ma & Pa Kettle series), and longtime Hitchcock associate Norman LIoyd. Premiering May 18, 1945, The Southerner opened to rave reviews, and wouId be nominated for Best Director, OriginaI Music Score, and Sound at the 18th Annual Academy Awards. Despite this, some feIt its portrayal of life down South was too stark. The fiIm was even banned in Tennessee, whose state censor thought it was an insult to Southern famers. Such criticism has Iong since faIIen away, however, and now The Southerner is largeIy regarded as Renoir's American masterpiece. It's an opinion shared by the director himseIf, who once wrote to his nephew, the cinematographer Claude Renoir, ""The only work which fuIly satisfied me here was The Southerner. |
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