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Movie Reviews of The Chase
Movie Review: The Stars Shine Bright...Deep In The Heart Of Texas!
Summary: 5 Stars
This review refers to the DVD widescreen edition(Columbia/TriStar) of "The Chase"...
Marlon Brando and company mix it up big time in a small Texas town that is ready to explode with hatred and jealousy. And what company Brando keeps...Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickenson, Robert Duvall, Richard Bradford and the great E.G. Marshall just to name a few. And there's more..directed by the illustrious Arthur Penn, from a novel by Horton Foote, a screenplay by Lillian Hellman and music composed by John Barry, this is one fabulous flick.
The lines are clearly drawn in this small Texas town. Class distinction, racial barriers, generation gaps, social injustice, vigilante justice and forbidden love, are all a big part of this tense story. Bubber Reeves(Redford), a one time resident, has just escaped from prison, and has been accused of a murder he did not commit. He is sought out by everyone from the richest man in town(Marshall),to a drunken mob of vigilantes, and his wife(Fonda) who fears for his life. It's up to Calder, the town Sheriff(Brando), to bring him in safely and see that justice is done. Not an easy task, and our guy takes some pretty tough knocks in the process(very tough for the Brando fan to take).
This is a beautifully filmed intense drama, that will keep you involved from the first frame to the last. These big stars are not just window dressing or cameos. All the characters are pivotal to the story and all the performances are played with perfection.
The DVD transfer of this nearly 40 year old film is gorgeous. The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen(2.35:1), with a nice clear picture and vivid color. The sound is very good, clear and distinct, but a DD5.1 enhancement would be a welcome addition to this film. The DVD includes subtitles in English, French Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
A classic film with classic stars from the 60's to add to you DVD collection..Go For it and enjoy...Laurie
also recommended:
Empire Falls (Every Small Town Has a Big Story) Vol. 1/Empire Falls (Every Small Town Has a Big Story) Vol. 2
White Man's Burden
One-Eyed Jacks
Movie Review: Brando sans pareil
Summary: 5 Stars
The Chase is an excellent early film of Arthur Penn and every scene is imbued with intelligence.The story is simple:prison escapee Bubber Reeves(Robert Redford) returns to his home town in search of shelter and justice,and manages, on the night of a community convention,to stir up a tsunami of guilt,corruption,lust,betrayal and violence,lurking not far beneath the surface.Penn imbues the story with a clarity and depth of vision to give it a mythic resonance as well as contemporary relevance.Brando was never better as a conscientious public servant.
Based on a play by Horton Foote,The Chase offers Penn's vision of a modern capitalist society in which the norm is victimization and greed,and the superficial mores and codes governing "polite behaviour "are simply for show.There is a constant tension between surface and reality,and as the film progresses,the strict social distinctions and structures witnessed simultaneously in 3 parties(those of Val,the Stewarts and the teenagers) begin to corrode, until at the end anarchy reigns as order breaks down completely (appropriately in a central junkyard).A sense of violence seething under the skin of a community is palpable,Penn's close work with the actors subtly revealing their characters in evidence.
Redford lying tired and soaked on a river bank after his arduous escape excitedly miming the act of shooting geese,or the fidgeting,uncomfortable manner of Sheriff Calder(Marlon Brando)in his formal attire for the convention(after we have seen him rigorously and lengthily get himself ready).This is a moral film,engaging with the whole concept of morality and human experience,uneasy bedfellows.It succeeds in conveying the immediacy and primacy of violence and social conflict.Penn never looks down on his characters nor lectures.He understands the source of violence,what its costs and effects areand he burns in the flames with the rest of us.A great starry cast,Brando the clasp holding it together,a standout performance giving life to the story.
Movie Review: Must-See. One of the BEST Marlon Brando performances ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't comprehend why this movie is not better known. It is absolutely riveting and amazingly good. The acting alone should have made it a total Oscar winner.
Marlon Brando is extraordinary in his subtle expresiveness as Sheriff Calder, well accompanied by Angie Dickinson as his loyal wife, both trapped in a small Texan hell-hole of a town where they expect to be saved by saving enough money from his lousy job to buy a farm away from it all.
Jane Fonda is excellent as Anna Reeves, the slightly neurotic wife of the escaped prisioner, Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) who has been having an affair with the town's spoilt brat and crown prince , Jason Rogers (James Fox) and heir to Val Rogers 's fortune (played excellently by E.G. Marshall), Robert Duvall is impressive in this early role as Edwin Stewart, an office drone that works for Val Rogers and is constantly humilated by his whorish wife, played to the hilt by Janice Rule.
The dialogue in this movie is particularly good, perhaps because Lillian Hellman was the writer.
An excellent essay in social criticism that was much needed at the time, as it is today. Had this movie been shown enough and talked about as much as it's inherent quality merits, perhaps we would not have chosen so many presidents from this unique environment.
Movie Review: 5 ##### STARS
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie when I was very,very young (and so were the stars) and now have the DVD.
I believe this to be a very UNDER RATED MOVIE.
The acting is superb all the way around and the story is magnificent.Color barriers (black,white,spanish{Mexican})infidelity,jailbreak,rich and middle class and poor all come to a climatic boiling point end that was magnifically casted.
Might as well call it an all star cast,because the great Marlon Brando has great syar company such as Robert Redford,E.G. Marshall,Jane Fonda,Robert Duvall(who later teams w/Brando for Godfather)are just a few of the great acting that should make this movie among the great.Oh,I forgot that Angie Dickinson is also in it.
Some faces will also look familiar to many as a couple of these actors end up on Star Trek the original as bad guys.For those who collect DVDs of movies from the 50s will recognize some actors from that decade putting on a little age.What i am saying is it is a group of all great actors and a suspensful story.
Movie Review: Peyton Place with guns
Summary: 5 Stars
One of Marlon Brando's best. This is Peyton Place with Guns. One of the best scenarios developed upon the premise of the evil of wagging tongues, jealousy, class envy, and hatred fueled by Friday night party-frenzy and too much booze. One man (Brando's town sheriff) is trying to do the right thing while everyone else is just gone crazy. Jane Fonda (hated her politics, but always loved her acting) is smouldering; Angie Dickinson is smouldering; most of the women are sizzling. The men are cocked and ready to shoot anything that moves. Great movie then. Holds up well today. Great dramatic masterpiece.