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The Chase [DVD] [1966]

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Actors: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson
Directors: Arthur Penn
Format: PAL
Language English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 15
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: 6 Dec 2004
Run Time: 127 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00030ERYM
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,277 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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An almost absurdly star-studded cast brings to life Horton Foote's story of prejudice, violence, and frustrated love in The Chase. When Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) escapes from prison, a drunken party in his hometown turns into a vigilante mob. The news disrupts the birthday celebration of a local oil tycoon (E.G. Marshall), whose son (James Fox) is having an affair with Reeves's wife Anna (Jane Fonda). Meanwhile, a bank vice-president (Robert Duvall) knows his wife (Janice Rule) is cheating on him but can't do anything about it except spread a little misery. The sheriff (Marlon Brando) struggles to hold things together until he can persuade Reeves to give himself up. The accents are thick and the emotions seem overwrought at first, but director Arthur Penn (Bonnie & Clyde , Little Big Man) weaves the multiple storylines together into an unsettling finale. Also featuring Angie Dickinson and Miriam Hopkins. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

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Robert Redford plays Bubba Reeves, an escaped convict who is returning to the small Texas town he calls home to visit his wife. Bubba's wife, the sheriff, and the rest of the town are none too pleased when they catch wind of Bubba's return. His wife is cheating on him with Roger, the son of the influential town oil mogul. The sheriff (Marlon Brando) might be in the oil mogul's pocket. Roger fears Bubba's wrath, as do the rest of the people in town, who all have there own reasons to fear the return of bad Bubba Reeves, ranging from the paranoid to the extremely justified. Whatever the reasons, everyone wants Bubba taken care of once and for all. The sheriff must apprehend Bubba and bring him in alive, all the time battling the will of the people who want Bubba Reeves dead.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not great ... but good, 17 Sep 2005

By	Barton Keyes "barton keyes" (England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Difficult though it may be to think of it now, in 1966 both Robert Redford and Jane Fonda were only on the threshold of super-stardom.

Brando was, of course, an established star by this time -- but still with the modesty and professional curiousity to explore "interesting" parts. The Chase gives him full scope to do this through the character of the fundamentally good and upright town sheriff -- a role that enables him to investigate both the problems of policing a small Texas town full of seething emotions (only just below the surface) and the conflict that one man has to face within himself and as a consequence of his public duty.

The screenplay -- by the talented Lillian Helman from a book by the brilliant and prolific Horton Foote -- is tight, multi-layered and full of excellent thow-away one liners that rattle off the hides of the generally unpleasant minor characters without leaving any visible moral impression.

The combination of three leads together with the excellent support of Robert Duvall, Angie Dickinson and EG Marshall gives this little piece a cast that would be impossibly uneconomic to put together again within a few years (although Fonda and Redford reunited the following year for the frothy Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park).

Not great but an interesting period piece from when America was just about getting uncomfortable with some of the truths about itself -- which little films like this were doing their bit to reveal.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Brando in Sixties violence fable, 21 May 2007

By	jimbob "Freofilm" (Australia) - See all my reviews

Full on "Drama". Sometimes overlit, script a bit didactic at times, but Brando gives a solid performance as the conflicted sheriff at the centre of a small southern USA town on a hot night of booze, sexuality and gun culture. Janice Rule is moving and catty in a good support role. All cast act with conviction. A snapshot of the sixties darkside, and the danger of mob violence.

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5.0 out of 5 stars re-evaluating a masterpiece , 12 Aug 2008

By	Dr. U. L. Khawaja "usman khawaja" (hornchurch ,london) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Arthur Penn has set the stage for a great social satire on various issues like class distinction ,racial bigotry,saturday night social revelvry,adultery and finally the failure of justice in a breach of the american dream in this taut drama set in a texan town on a warm saturday night .
Redford has broken from prison and a lot of people are afraid for themselves due to a freaky guilty conscience,as they have wronged him and fear revenge and this premise becomes a viloent circus on the american attraction to the glorification of crime and anti-social behaviour.
Fonda As Redfords wife and Brando as the sheriff is trying to find him before he can be slaughtered as a sacrificial lamb by the town people who need a show on saturday night to entertain themselves .
This becomes an extremely powerful indictment of the failure of law to protect anyone as the social order descends to a savage level where people behave like gladiators in a roman arena and this is so convincingly portrayed to give you goose bumps .
The disturbed consciences of a bourgeois drunken rabble are examined in a brutally affective manner by a master craftsman in s beautifully lit movie which moves from daylight through the mayhem of a chaotic night into the light dawn of next day .
This is one of the most powerful dramas i have ever seen and it is a must for anyone who loves quality cinema .
A true masterpiece in the order of Orson Welles and Billy Wilder dramas by a master called Penn ,Brando in one of his life's best roles with Redford and Jane fonda in top form ,also a great supporting cast with Robert Duvall,Bradford,e.g.MARSHALL,Angie Dickinson ,James fox make this a haunting but great piece of dramatic art .
I just love the way penn uses the light and sound to enhance his plot and atmosphere in this masterpiece .

the alcoholic excesses gone wrong on a hot summer night in a texan bougeois community , culminating in a mockery of justice and social values - truth in it's naked glory.

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