The Chase

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Arthur Penn directs this 1966 crime thriller about a convict’s escape from prison and the chaos that follows in his small Southern hometown. When Bubber Reeves breaks out, he sets off a chain of events that exposes the town’s simmering tensions, infidelities, and prejudices. A drunken party becomes a vigilante mob, a sheriff struggles to maintain order, and multiple lives intersect in unexpected ways. The ensemble cast includes Marlon Brando as the embattled sheriff, Jane Fonda as Reeves’s wife caught in a complicated affair, Robert Redford as the escaped convict, E.G. Marshall as a wealthy oil tycoon, James Fox, Angie Dickinson, and others in a sprawling narrative adapted by Horton Foote from Lillian Hellman’s work.

This is a single-disc DVD release from Columbia Pictures with a runtime of two hours and fourteen minutes, rated Approved. Penn weaves together multiple storylines of passion and desperation into an unsettling climax that builds beneath the surface tension of the narrative. Grab this used copy and experience a piece of 1960s cinema without the new price tag.