Hurry Sundown is a 1967 American drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Jane Fonda and Michael Caine. The screenplay by Horton Foote and Thomas C. Ryan is based on the 1965 novel of the same title by K.B. Gilden, a pseudonym for married couple Katya and Bert Gilden. In 1946, bigoted, draft-dodging Henry Warren and his wife Julie Ann, owners of a Northern canning plant, are determined to purchase a large tract of uncultivated farmland in rural Georgia. Two plots remain beyond their grasp, one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell and his wife Lou, the other by black... sharecropper Reeve Scott, whose mother Rose had been Julie's mammy. Neither man is interested in selling his land, and they form a partnership to strengthen their claim to it, which infuriates Henry. When Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, but local teacher Vivian Thurlow searches the town's records and uncovers proof that Reeve legally registered the deed to his land. Julie, upset with Henry's treatment of their mentally challenged son, decides to leave him and drops her suit against Reeve.
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| Release date: | May 25, 1967 |
| Directed by: | Otto Preminger |
| Runtime: | 146 Minutes |
| Producer: | Otto Preminger |
| Editor: | Louis R. Loeffler |
| Music by: | Hugo Montenegro |
| Cinematography: | Milton R. Krasner |
| Screenplay by: | Horton Foote, Bert Gilden, Katya Gilden, Thomas C. Ryan |
| Estimated budget: | $4,000,000 |