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The Sound and the Fury (1959)
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6 April 1959 (Sweden)
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Loosely based on the William Faulkner novel, this movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons:...
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(Credited cast)| Yul Brynner | ... | Jason Compson | |
| Joanne Woodward | ... | Quentin Compson / Narrator | |
| Margaret Leighton | ... | Caddy Compson | |
| Stuart Whitman | ... | Charlie Busch | |
| Ethel Waters | ... | Dilsey | |
| Jack Warden | ... | Ben Compson | |
| Françoise Rosay | ... | Mrs. Caroline Compson | |
| John Beal | ... | Howard Compson | |
| Albert Dekker | ... | Earl Snopes | |
| Stephen Perry | ... | Luster | |
| William Gunn | ... | T.P., Dilsey's Grandson | |
| Roy Glenn | ... | Job |
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110 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)
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I just happen to be an eccentric.
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Referenced in Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (2000) (TV)
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I have long wanted to see this film, knowing that it would be weird. I would think that viewers who have read the novel -- arguably, with Absalom, Absalom, Huck Finn, and Moby Dick, one of the four greatest American novels written -- would be, at the least, perplexed at the handling of this story, which could have, in the hands of a French New Wave director, been made into something that resembled the book. I had thought that Yul Brenner would be cast as Benjy. It gets all the more bizarre. Fascinating look at great literature meets hungry Hollywood. Of course, I may not be fair in that I thought Kubrik's take on The Shining was excellent, while King fans were outraged. Two Stars for its being made.