Otto Preminger Collection

Otto Preminger Collection

HURRY SUNDOWN - Thomas C. Ryan and Horton Foote's epic adaptation of K.B. Gilden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in 1940s Georgia... Michael Caine stars as an unscrupulous and racist landowner obsessed with buying up all available land in a Georgia farming town. The all-star cast includes Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway and Burgess Meredith. 1967 SKIDOO - Otto Preminger (Anatomy of a Murder) directs this psychedelic-comedy classic starring Jackie Gleason as Tough Tony Banks, a retired gangster who reluctantly comes out of retirement to silence his old friend and squealer (Mickey Rooney). The all-star cast includes Batman villains (Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin), George Raft and Groucho Marx. 1968 SUCH GOOD FRIENDS - Elaine May (under the pseudonym, Esther Dale) adapted this comedy-drama from the Lois Gould best-selling novel. Julie Messinger (Dyan Cannon) is an intense woman who hides her wild emotions and desires under her conventional façade. Her husband checks into the hospital for a simple mole removal that goes seriously wrong. The stellar cast includes James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill, Ken Howard, Louise Lasser & Burgess Meredith. 1971.