The Chase (1966)
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80% of critics liked it
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69% of users liked it
(2,555 ratings)
All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one… More All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday when news filters in that wild child Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) has jumped prison. Bubber's impending arrival arouses hostility among Tarl's citizens, such as Edwin Stewart (Robert Duvall), who believes that Bubber will come after him to settle an old score, and Damon Puller (Richard Bradford), who, between grope sessions with Edwin's wife Emily (Janice Rule), uses Bubber as an excuse to terrorize black residents. As the atmosphere heats up, Calder wants to keep Bubber alive, and he convinces Bubber's wife Anna (Jane Fonda) and her lover, Val's son Jake (James Fox), to find Bubber and coax him into surrender. Val's fear that Bubber will kill his son, however, sparks a long confrontation that leaves rational law and order pummeled into the ground by the town's ignorant cruelty. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
- Directed By
- Arthur Penn
- Written By
- Horton Foote, Lillian Hellman
- Genres
- Drama, Classics
- In Theaters
- Feb 17, 1966 Limited
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A Texas-style Peyton Place that's possibly more absurd.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Preceding Bonnie and Clyde by a year, Arthur Penn's small-town drama, flaunting a top-notch cast (Brando, Redford, Jane Fonda) is a quintessential movie pointing to the thematic and tonal direction Hollywood would take in the late 1960s.
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Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Great stars, great director, muddled message melodrama.
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Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
ripping little drama
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Cast
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Marlon Brando
as Sheriff Calder
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Jane Fonda
as Anna Reeves
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Robert Redford
as Bubber Reeves
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James Fox
as Jake Jason Rogers
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E.G. Marshall
as Val Rogers
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Janice Rule
as Emily Stewart
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Angie Dickinson
as Ruby Calder
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Miriam Hopkins
as Mrs. Reeves
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Martha Hyer
as Mary Fuller
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Richard Bradford
as Damon Fuller
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Robert Duvall
as Edwin Stewart
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Diana Hyland
as Elizabeth Rogers
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Henry Hull
as Briggs
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Jocelyn Brando
as Mrs. Briggs
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Katherine Walsh
as Verna Dee
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Lori Martin
as Cutie
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Marc Seaton
as Paul
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Clifton James
as Lem
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Malcolm Atterbury
as Mr. Reeves
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Nydia Westman
as Mrs. Henderson
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Joel Fluellen
as Lester Johnson
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Maurice Manson
as Moore
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Bruce Cabot
as Sol
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Steve Whittaker
as Slim
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Pamela Curran
as Mrs. Siftifieus
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Ken Renard
as Sam
- Eduardo Ciannelli
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Richard Collier
as Guests at Rogers' Party
- Mel Gallagher
- Monte Hale
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Steve Ihnat
as Archie
- Ralph Moody
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Grady Sutton
as Mr. Siftifieus
- Howard Wright
- Davis Roberts
- Ray Galvin
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Paul Williams
as Seymour