George Smith

Deux jeunes frères, Chris et Tim, vivent avec leur père dans le sud des Etats Unis lorsque leur oncle Deel leur rend visite après avoir purgé une peine de prison. Il va assassiner leur père afin de s'emparer de l'or familial. Mais les deux enfants, témoins du meurtre, s'enfuient avec l'argent. Deel se lance à leur poursuite, à travers le Mississippi...

A character piece between a widower and his teenage daughter, as the father realizes his tomboy child is becoming a young woman.

On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein had led a small team – which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock – to complete the film from hours of shocking footage. Unfortunately, this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into acceptance of Allied occupation had missed its moment. Even in its incomplete form (available since 1984) the film was immensely powerful, generating an awed hush among audiences. But now, complete to six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version produced by IWM, is being compared with Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog (1955).