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Dragocena zemlja

Dragocena zemlja, 1967
drama

Hurry Sundown, ZDA, 146 min

Imdb ocena 5.7

Žanr: drama

Igrajo: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll

Režija: Otto Preminger

Avtorji: Horton Foote, Bert Gilden (novela), Katya Gilden (novela), Thomas C. Ryan

Jezik: angleški

Dragocena zemlja - Hurry Sundown

Slovenski opis filma:

Neusmiljeni južnjaški veleposestnik skuša kupiti zemljo od svojca. Želi si tudi zemljo njegovih sosedov, revne temnopolte družine. Ko zavrnejo njegovo ponudbo o prodaji, se zateče k umazanim trikom, da bi jih pregnal. Henry Warren je z imetjem in lastnino obsedeni južnjaški veleposestnik, ki skuša kupiti vso razpoložljivo zemljo v majhnem kmetijskem kraju v zvezni državi Georgia. Scottovi, revna temnopolta družina, so lastniki enega od zemljišč, ki bi si jih rad prilastil. Glava družine Rose je nekoč delala kot služkinja za družino Henryjeve soproge Julie Ann, zato Henry pošlje ženo, da bi jih pregovorila v prodajo posestva. Ne le, da Rose nikakor ne privoli v prodajo, temveč jo zahteva tako razburi, da tragično podleže infarktu in kmalu je njen trmasti sin Reeve novi lastnik domačije. Medtem si Henry prizadeva kupiti tudi zemljišče, ki ga obdelujeta Rod McDowell in njegova žena Lou, revna belopolta zakonca, ki sta Henryjeva sorodnika. Farma McDowellovih pa meji na posestvo Scottovih, zato skleneta Teeve in Rod združiti moči zoper Henryja, kar ima za posledico nasilno poravnavo računov proti njima.

Originalni opis filma:

Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.