Film Forum

(1956, Joseph Anthony) In 1931, charismatic salesman/conman Burt Lancaster arrives in a drought-stricken Kansas farm town, selling the locals a bill of goods and bedazzling spinster Katharine Hepburn. 35mm. Approx. 121 min.

Reviews

“Genuinely appealing, in a crude, good-spirited way.”
– Pauline Kael

“Remains one of the movies for which Lancaster is most vividly remembered.”
– Kate Buford, Lancaster: An American Life