Hurry Sundown

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Hurry Sundown is a 1967 American drama film directed by Otto Preminger, known for its exploration of racial and social tensions in the rural American South.

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Hurry Sundown canonical 3
Hurry Sundown (novel) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American drama film
film
basedOn Hurry Sundown self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hurry Sundown (novel)
basedOnAuthor K.B. Gilden
cinematographyBy Milton R. Krasner
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Otto Preminger
distributedIn theatrical release
distributor Paramount Pictures
editedBy Harry Keller
exploresIssue economic inequality
segregation
filmFormat color
filmingLocation Louisiana
genre drama film
legal drama
hasCharacterType Black farmer
white landowner
hasColorProcess Technicolor
mainTheme racial tensions
social tensions
MPAARating Approved
musicBy Hugo Montenegro
narrativeFocus land ownership dispute
post–World War II South
narrativeGenre Southern drama
originalLanguage English
portrays class conflict
racism in the United States
producer Otto Preminger
productionCompany Paramount Pictures
releaseDate 1967-02-09
releaseYear 1967
runtimeMinutes 146
screenwriter Horton Foote
Thomas C. Ryan
settingCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
settingLocation rural American South
starring Burgess Meredith
Diahann Carroll
Faye Dunaway
George Kennedy
Jane Fonda
John Phillip Law
Michael Caine
Robert Hooks
timePeriodSetting post-World War II era

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Robert Hooks notableWork Hurry Sundown
Hurry Sundown basedOn Hurry Sundown self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hurry Sundown (novel)
Otto Preminger notableWork Hurry Sundown
Otto Preminger directed Hurry Sundown