The Chase

Genre: social drama

With: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Angie Dickinson

Director: Arthur Penn

Release: 1965

Studio: Horizon Pictures, Columbia Pictures Corporation

Rating: 14A

MBiS score: 8.6/10

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Story-line: panic spreads through a Texas town when locals learn that Charlie ‟Bubber” Reeves, a well-known convict, has just escaped from prison.

Pluses: fabulous performances by A-list actors, a powerful and violent story by Horton Foote and Lillian Hellman, Arthur Penn’s steady direction.

Minuses: the film’s nondescript title doesn’t reflect its high merit.   

Comments: THE CHASE spins an appalling tale about messy lives, powerful people, social ills and vigilante justice. By and large, this is what riveting, masterful cinema looks like.   

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