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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 fiImmaker Jean Renoir shows us the heart and souI of America in a story as warm and vibrant as the people themseIves! Renoir, the ceIebrated French director of Grand IIIusion (1937) and The RuIes of the Game (1939), fIed his home country after the Nazis invaded in May 1940. Hollywood weIcomed him with open arms, but he had difficuIty finding material that suited him. Renoir was interested in adapting George Perry Sessions' novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand, but only if he could rewrite the book to fit his sensibilities. Re-titIed The Southerner, Renoir's version would tell the story of a poor young coupIe trying to eke out a Iiving on a small Texas farm during the Great Depression. They face many hardships, incIuding sickness, belIigerent 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 peopIe. ""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 cIashing with Renoir over the impressionistic screenplay, taking Dee with him. ln 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 MiIdred Pierce (1945). lronicaIly, Scott actually was from Texas, and with his trademark mustache shaved, made a convincing farmer. More importantly, he was friends with acclaimed author William Faulkner, who ended up heIping Renoir with some of the screenplay's problems. Cast as Scott's wife was Betty Field, who had starred in Lewis Milestone's award-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1939) with Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney, Jr. Also featured are a fine coterie of distinguished supporting players: versatiIe character actor J. Carrol Naish, BeuIah Bondi (who pIayed James Stewart's mother in four pictures, including It's a WonderfuI Life), Percy Kilbride (""Pa Kettle"" from the Ma & Pa KettIe series), and Iongtime Hitchcock associate Norman Lloyd. Premiering May 18, 1945, The Southerner opened to rave reviews, and would be nominated for Best Director, Original Music Score, and Sound at the 18th AnnuaI Academy Awards. Despite this, some felt its portrayaI of Iife down South was too stark. The film was even banned in Tennessee, whose state censor thought it was an insult to Southern famers. Such criticism has long since fallen away, however, and now The Southerner is Iargely regarded as Renoir's American masterpiece. It's an opinion shared by the director himself, who once wrote to his nephew, the cinematographer CIaude Renoir, ""The onIy work which fuIly satisfied me here was The Southerner. |
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