00:00I'm Burgess Meredith, and I am also an authority on Hurry Sundown, the best-selling novel that
00:08has been read and acclaimed by millions of people all over the world. Now, the New York Times Book
00:13Review said of this novel, there is anger in Hurry Sundown, and there is truth, and there is a surge
00:20of life that is unforgettable. The Literary Guild Review said, it has the sweep of gone with the
00:27wind and the spirit of the grapes of wrath. And now this sweep and this spirit and the powerful
00:33surge of life is on the screen in Otto Preminger's film, Hurry Sundown. I know because I have seen it
00:41and I have watched it being made, and with many other stars, I am in it. Hurry Sundown is a story
00:48of the Deep South just after World War II. It is boldly different from everything that has been told
00:54before. It goes deep into the secrets and passions of the South, a part of America that has always
01:00intrigued the world. It is a proud land with its own traditions, its own customs, its own heritage.
01:08It is a place of vivid contrasts. It can be warmly sentimental and wildly sensual, charming and
01:17friendly, suddenly violent. It is often gracious, but sometimes terrifying.
01:28When an actor works with new stars, he always gets a special thrill, and Hurry Sundown has the most
01:34brilliant young cast in years.
01:36This is Michael Cain, whom you first met in the Ipcrest File, Funeral in Berlin, and Alfie. He's about to play a scene with Jane Fonda. They're dynamite together.
01:50Don't you come in here!
01:53Don't you touch me!
01:55No!
01:56It was a combination that exploded day after day.
01:59Ain't never been anything like that in my side of the family.
02:02Jane Fonda is always fascinating.
02:05Henry!
02:06You are depraved.
02:09Making 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.
02:19Now in a screen role that audiences will remember.
02:22You whites don't have a monopoly on that kind of man.
02:25John Philip Law made a sensational screen debut in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.
02:31Dear God Almighty!
02:33Come really home!
02:35Faye Dunaway.
02:36Since finishing Hurry Sundown, she is one of Hollywood's brightest and most sought-after new talents.
02:42Give me the damn thing, will ya?
02:43No! I'm not gonna let you do it!
02:45Give it to me!
02:46No!
02:47Right here!
02:49And Robert Hooks.
02:50He's a discovery from New York's Broadway theater.
02:53We can't trust no Miss Julia nor the white folks to look out for us.
02:56We gotta start watching out for ourselves.
02:58And here I am, typecast again as a charming, pleasant fellow.
03:03This was nothing less than the lemons of a drunken, syphiletic old nigger woman.
03:09The 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.
03:29I was a white folksnigger.
03:31I was.
03:35You must see Otto Preminger's film Hurry Sundown.
03:38An explosive drama of love and the absence of love.
03:43It is set in the south, but it is happening everywhere.
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