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Hurry Sundown Overview:

Hurry Sundown (1967) was a Drama - Film directed by Otto Preminger and produced by Otto Preminger.

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Julie Ann Warren: It wasn't until I was ten years old that I realized that "damn" and "Yankee" were two separate words!

Rose Scott: Sometin's ailin' you, Reeve.
Reeve Scott: No, Mama.
Rose Scott: Well, sometin's hasn't changed your mood since breakfast. Tell me.
Reeve Scott: Mama, you better dan anyo' dat radar dey had out in de Souf Pacific.
Rose Scott: I don' know nothin' 'bout radar, but I know when sometin's plaguin' ma chile.

[Rose and Julie converse while Julie's child rests in Rose's arms]
Julie Ann Warren: Ah declare, Rose. Ah never saw him take to anyone like he does to you.
Rose Scott: Chillun' know who loves 'em.
Julie Ann Warren: Oh sometimes, Rose, Ah think you just about invented love.

[The bigoted Judge Purcell rebukes a white lawyer for his help to the black defendant]
Judge Purcell: Don't you rattle your skeleton in my court! Your being here at all constitutes a treachery to the entire white community that's too colossal to be believed!
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Hurry Sundown Facts
Faye Dunaway's film debut.

Footage from this film of a young Michael Caine was later used in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember.

Michael Caines first attempt at an American accent. He was taught by Vivien Leigh. She told him to memorize the phrase "Four-door Ford".

Then-Governor George Wallace refused permission to allow Otto Preminger to shoot the film in his state of Alabama.

Was the first major motion picture film with black actor to ever be shot on location in the South. The cast and crew received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan, had their car tires slashed, and had to be protected by armed state troopers.

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