The Chase
Summary:
All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday when news filters in that wild child Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) has jumped p... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Marlon Brando - (Sheriff Calder)
Jane Fonda - (Anna Reeves)
Robert Redford - (Bubber Reeves)
James Fox - (Jake Jason Rogers)
E.G. Marshall - (Val Rogers)
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Review:
Scripted by Lillian Hellman from Horton Foote's novel and play, The Chase's story -- of how fear of youth and distrust of the liberal Sheriff Calder unhinge a small-minded community -- became an allegory of cultural disintegration after the 1963 Kennedy assassination. In this hothouse atmosphere, traditional institutions of law and marr... Continue >>
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