Hurry Sundown (1967)

Plot: In 1946, a wealthy Southerner wants the land owned by two small farmers (one white, one black) and will do anything to get it.
Stars: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith

Otto Preminger on White Southerners:
-Look, you know how Southerners *lie!* It's *born* in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No *sir!*
-Human life don't mean as much to them as it does to us! Look, they're sexing and lushing it up and fighting all the time...Oh, sure, there are some good things about 'em, too! Look, I'm the first one to say that! I've known a couple who were OK, but that's the exception, y'know what I mean? Most of 'em, it's like they have no feelings! They can do anything!

A Bomb-office bomb when released, and currently IMDB rated at 5.7, I watched the movie with mounting disbelief.  What the hell was Preminger thinking?

 I've never seen so many good actors give such bad performances.  There's:

•  Michael Caine  trying to play a greedy, Southern aristocrat - and coming off as "Alfie" in a white suit with a weird Cockney-Southern accent;
• Jane Fonda trying to be part Scarlet O'Hara - part Maggie the Cat - and part Stella Kowalski and failing at all of them.  Her bathroom scene with Diahann Carroll, is so bad its embarrassing;
• Burgess Meredith playing a bigoted Southern judge as a Southern-fried "Penguin". You constantly expect him to put on a top hat and go "quack, quack" ; and finally 
• George Kennedy, playing a Southern Sheriff so dumb, he makes "Gomer Pyle" look like a Rhodes Scholar. 

The rest of the cast
The black actors, Carroll, Hooks, and Beah Richards, do well - but they're so noble, well spoken and classy -why aren't they living in Oxford England instead of nowhere Georgia? And while Faye Dunaway is OK,  some guy called John Philip Law is dull and Jim Backus/Robert Reed are absurd as Southern lawyers. Like everyone else, their fake southern accents come and go.

The Plot and Story
A sort of a Miss Jane Pittman goes to Peyton Place with touches of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Dallas - it somehow manages to be (1) boring and (2) offensive to both blacks AND whites.  For example, Preminger didn't seem to understand that Blacks have their own Ministers/Churches and  didn't need white ones to teach them Christianity.  Blacks are patronized AND shown as impossibly good.  We're also given the "N" word - and other racial insults.

And the bizarre, tasteless, sex scenes!  You have Jane Fonda trying to flirt with an uninterested Caine (her Husband)  by playing the sax while on her knees. Much later, Caine breaks into her room and rapes her, but next morning Fonda has a smile on her face and its all love and kisses.

Summary:  Sheer pulp fiction.... a massive mishmash of stereotyped Southern characters and hackneyed melodramatic incidents.... flimsy in texture and dramatically beyond belief.... Stereotypes lifted from the bottom of the Southern cracker barrel.... An offense to intelligence - Bosley Crowther