Film Forum

U.S., 1966
Directed by Arthur Penn
Based on Horton Foote’s The Chase
Starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford
Approx. 134 min. DCP.

“Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford), a wrongfully imprisoned convict, is tempted into a jail break by a fellow prisoner. After their escape, that prisoner kills a person and drives away in their car, leaving Bubber to take the fall and making him a fugitive twice over. The citizens of his unnamed Texas hometown, with only a few exceptions, are a rowdy, drunken mob who bay for his blood; after hopping the wrong train, Bubber finds himself heading straight for them. His only hope for protection is the long-suffering Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando), who never believed he was guilty in the first place.” – Little White Lies

Reviews

“...a firework display of controlled violence.”
– Time Out