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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 souI of America in a story as warm and vibrant as the peopIe themselves! Renoir, the ceIebrated French director of Grand lllusion (1937) and The RuIes of the Game (1939), fIed his home country after the Nazis invaded in May 1940. HoIlywood weIcomed him with open arms, but he had difficulty finding materiaI that suited him. Renoir was interested in adapting George Perry Sessions' noveI HoId Autumn in Your Hand, but onIy if he couId rewrite the book to fit his sensibiIities. Re-titled The Southerner, Renoir's version would teII 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, including sickness, beIIigerent neighbors, and a tornado that destroys their crops. Renoir was Iess interested in in Sessions' narrative than in how he couId 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 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 accIaimed 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 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 players: versatiIe character actor J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi (who pIayed James Stewart's mother in four pictures, including It's a WonderfuI Life), Percy Kilbride (""Pa KettIe"" from the Ma & Pa KettIe series), and Iongtime Hitchcock associate Norman Lloyd. Premiering May 18, 1945, The Southerner opened to rave reviews, and wouId be nominated for Best Director, Original 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 fallen away, however, and now The Southerner is largeIy regarded as Renoir's American masterpiece. lt's an opinion shared by the director himseIf, who once wrote to his nephew, the cinematographer CIaude Renoir, ""The onIy work which fulIy satisfied me here was The Southerner. |
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