00:00I'm Burgess Meredith and I am also an authority on Hurry Sundown, the best-selling novel that has been read and acclaimed by millions of people all over the world.
00:11Now the New York Times Book Review said of this novel, there is anger in Hurry Sundown and there is truth and there is a surge of life that is unforgettable.
00:22The Literary Guild Review said, it has the sweep of gone with the wind and the spirit of the grapes of wrath.
00:30And now this sweep and this spirit and the powerful surge of life is on the screen in Otto Preminger's film, Hurry Sundown.
00:38I know because I have seen it and I have watched it being made and with many other stars, I am in it.
00:45Hurry Sundown is a story of the Deep South just after World War II.
00:50It is boldly different from everything that has been told before.
00:53It goes deep into the secrets and passions of the South, a part of America that has always intrigued the world.
01:01It is a proud land with its own traditions, its own customs, its own heritage.
01:07It is a place of vivid contrasts.
01:11It can be warmly sentimental and wildly sensual, charming and friendly, suddenly violent.
01:18It is often gracious, but sometimes terrifying.
01:27When an actor works with new stars, he always gets a special thrill.
01:32And Hurry Sundown has the most brilliant young cast in years.
01:35This is Michael Caine, whom you first met in the Ipcrest File, Funeral in Berlin, and Alfie.
01:44He's about to play a scene with Jane Fonda.
01:47They're dynamite together.
01:49Don't you come in here!
01:52Don't you touch me!
01:54No!
01:55It was a combination that exploded day after day.
01:58Ain't never been anything like that in my side of the family.
02:01Jane Fonda is always fascinating.
02:04Henry!
02:06You are depraved.
02:08Making your own wife blush before six in the morning.
02:11Hurry Sundown also has four new stars of tomorrow.
02:15Diane Carroll, the nightclub, stage, and recording star.
02:18Now in a screen role that audiences will remember.
02:21You whites don't have a monopoly on that kind of man.
02:24John Philip Lawl made a sensational screen debut in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.
02:30Dear God Almighty, I'm really home.
02:34Faye Dunaway.
02:35Since finishing Hurry Sundown, she is one of Hollywood's brightest and most sought-after new talents.
02:41Give me the damn thing, will you?
02:42No, I'm not gonna let you do it.
02:44Give it to me.
02:45No.
02:46Right here.
02:47And Robert Hooks.
02:49He's a discovery from New York's Broadway Theater.
02:52We can't trust no Miss Julia nor other white folks who'd look out for us.
02:55We gotta start watching out for ourselves.
02:57And here I am, typecast again as a charming, pleasant fellow.
03:02This was nothing less than the lemons of a drunken, syphiletic old nigger woman.
03:07The supporting roles, too, are magnificently cast and performed by Robert Reed, George Kennedy, Frank Converse, Loring Smith, Madeline Sherwood, Rex Ingram, Steve Sanders, John Mark, Doro Morandi, Luke Askew, Donna Danton, Jim Backus, and Bea Richards.
03:28I was a white folks nigger, I was.
03:31You must see Otto Preminger's film, Hurry Sundown, an explosive drama of love and the absence of love.
03:43It is set in the South, but it is happening everywhere.
03:46It is set and spot.
03:46It is set in the South, but it does not have aff preacher and love.
03:49Thank you individually.
03:52Thank you very much.
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