Hurry Sundown (1967)

Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots – one owned by Henry’s cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie’s childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve’s mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.
Otto Preminger, Burtt Harris, Howard Joslin, John G. Avildsen, Marshall Schlom
Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith, Loring Smith, George Kennedy, Luke Askew, Beah Richards, Doro Merande, Madeleine Sherwood, Jim Backus, Robert Reed, Frank Converse, Donna Danton, Steve Sanders, Robert C. Bloodwell, William Elder, John Mark, Dawn Barcelona, Rex Ingram, Michael Henry Roth, Gladys Newman, Joan Parks, Peter Goff, Charles Keel, Kelly Ross, Ada Hall Covington
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