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Name: The Chase (1966)
Released: 1966-2-19
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson

The Chase (1966)

NR
2h 13m
1966

80%

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The moral foundation of a small Texas town is torn apart in this explosive drama about power and greed, starring Academy Award® winners Marlon Brando (Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Godfather, 1972, and On the Waterfront, 1954), Robert Redford (Best Director - Ordinary People, 1980), Jane Fonda (Best Actress in a Leading Role - Coming Home, 1978, and Klute, 1971) and TV star Angie Dickinson. Sheriff Calder (Brando) isn't the only person chasing Bubber Reeves (Redford) when he escaped from prison. Oil and cattle baron Val Rogers (E.G. Marshall) wants Bubber out of the way to cover up the love affair his son Jason is having with Bubber's wife (Fonda). The Chase is on. When bigotry and booze propel the townsfolk into a vigilante mob, Calder's wife (Dickinson) tries to convince her husband that he doesn't have to bring Bubber in alive. But the sheriff is fighting for justice and he won't be stopped until the shattering climax. No one escapes untouched in acclaimed director Arthur Penn's action-packed drama scripted by Lillian Hellman from a Horton Foote novel.

Director:

Arthur Penn

Producer:

Sam Spiegel

Writer:

Lillian Hellman

Cast:

Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, James Fox

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

80%

Reviews

McCall's

Pauline Kael

In The Chase, not only are the elaborate production values out of place, nobody seems to be in control of them.

Considering the sprawling cast of distinctive characters and personalities, The Chase remains a compact exercise in control.

Hysterical, extravagant, preposterous... Yet through all the Wagnerian excesses of the film, one can't help remembering the real events of this summer in Texas.

The "New Hollywood" of the 1960s and 70s produced a number of withering takes on American institutions, but no filmmaker was as consistently convinced of the venality at the heart of American society as Arthur Penn.

The assassinations of Kennedy and Oswald are allegorically present in Lilliam Hellman's magnificent script... This is a progressive and self-critical film. [Full Review in Spanish]

July 17, 2019

FULL REVIEW