The Chase Page #3

Synopsis: Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' wife. It seems many others in town feel they may have reasons to fear Reeves. Calder's aim is to bring Reeves in alive, unharmed. Calder will have to oppose the powerful Rogers on one hand and mob violence on the other, in his quest for justice.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Arthur Penn
Production: Columbia Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
APPROVED
Year:
1966
134 min
853 Views


Are you the lower classes? Goodbye.

My wife's joking, sir.

Don't apologize for me.

I don't like it, Junior.

We all miss you, Damon.

Yeah.

Why the hell haven't you

answered my calls?

Because I didn't hell feel like it.

It's not as easy as it was,

and my wife isn't as stupid as...

Yes, she is.

Damon, I wanna see you tonight.

Now, don't use that tone to me.

Try it on the other

vice president. He likes it.

He married you for it.

How is she in bed?

I don't carry a computer to bed.

What are you talking about?

Talking about that girl I saw you with.

You're lying.

You want me to prove it to you?

Or the very moral Val Rogers.

Goodbye, Emily. I'll see you.

Tonight?

Yes.

Hey, Bubber Reeves escaped today.

- Did he? When?

- I don't know. I just heard about it.

That'll give them something

to talk about for a few hours.

Lock their doors tonight.

Pretending Bubber's something

to be frightened of.

Maybe you should be frightened.

- Emily, I told you that in secret.

- You told me about that in bed.

Yes.

Well, I guess I'd better tell you.

Remember, just before Bubber

got sent up last time?

Well, Damon and I, and some

other people, of course...

...were all sitting around

Sol's Cafe, beering it up.

Well, Bubber was there, right.

Well, I told it to him for a joke.

- I don't believe it.

- I thought it'd be nice...

...to prove to him that you

were sorry after all these years.

Oh, look at you, upset about anything

and everything. Everybody laughed.

Did Bubber laugh?

No, he didn't. He just stared.

You know how he does.

That funny stare...

...like everything has gone all wrong,

and he just can't figure out why.

FROZEN FOODS:

AND MEATS:

Welcome to Terrell.

It's dull, but it's nice.

Why, child, you can always

come back to Houston with me.

Watch it. They're wolves

and old enough to be your granddad.

My, look how they wear

their shirts down here.

What are you doing?

- Pray for us, Ms. Henderson.

- I'm praying for you, honey.

I'm praying for us all.

I'm praying for you too, honey.

Much obliged, ma'am,

and bless your old heart.

That's very nice of you.

We sure do appreciate it...

...but why don't you go home

and pray.

- All right, honey.

- Now, thank you very much.

Bless the strangers within our gates...

Anna.

Sol, tell Anna I wanna see her.

Tell her yourself, if you can

find her before Monday.

Hi, there.

Well...

...you don't see horns much anymore.

How come you got horns, boy?

Who ain't, like the man said.

Going home?

Mexico?

Mexico?

Mexico?

Where are you going?

Give up, boys.

I'm a good shot.

I'll follow you down. All roasted.

I'm hungry.

You've been sitting there

for the last hour, staring at nothing.

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Horton Foote

Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta and two Academy Awards, one for an original screenplay, Tender Mercies, and one for adapted screenplay, To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1995, Foote was the inaugural recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award. In describing his three-play work, The Orphans' Home Cycle, the drama critic for the Wall Street Journal said this: "Foote, who died last March, left behind a masterpiece, one that will rank high among the signal achievements of American theater in the 20th century." In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. more…

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