Consider who is in this movie for a minute- Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, George Kennedy, Faye Dunaway- all superstars. The director was another celebrity- Otto Preminger. The plot is excellent- racial tension between blacks & whites in the South in the 1940's, pride, greed, and sexual tension. So really you had all the pieces for a 5 star movie, but somehow it comes across as a 2.5 star movie (Netflix nation gives it 3 stars). It was fun seeing Burgess Meridith (Trainer "Mic" from the Rocky movies) and Jim Backus (Thurston Howelee III on the Gilligans Island series) in this movie playing the roles they did.
I was so confused the first 45 min of the movie, not sure where Preminger was going. The last 100 min had flashes of brilliance, but not pieced together like it should have been. Dull parts, and great parts. It never really came together as one great movie. Unless you are a huge Fonda or Caine fan, I think you will not like this movie.
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