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The Ballad of the Sad Café is a 1991 Southern Gothic drama film directed by Simon Callow in his directorial debut, and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, and Rod Steiger. Its plot follows Amelia, a moonshiner in rural 1930s Georgia whose lonely life is interrupted by the arrival of two men: First, her long-lost cousin, and later, her ...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Directed by Simon Callow. With Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Rod Steiger. A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine.
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Simon Callow
- 1991-06
McCullers was a gifted member of the Southern Gothic school who built on Faulkner and made the South seem peopled with grotesque heroes and villains in a hothouse of sex, scandal, vice, secrecy and unwholesome family secrets.
Merchant Ivory veteran Simon Callow's only turn as a director is a twisted Southern Gothic dark comedy set in a small rural town in the deep South. Redgrave plays Miss Amelia, the eccentric...
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- Simon Callow
- PG-13
- Vanessa Redgrave
Aug 31, 2022 · Merchant Ivory veteran Simon Callow's only turn as a director is a twisted Southern Gothic dark comedy set in a small rural town in the deep South. Redgrave plays Miss Amelia, the eccentric ...
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Ballad Of The Sad Cafe, The -- (Movie Clip) The Word Of The Lord! Townsfolk gather in the woods to hear preacher Reverend Willin (Rod Steiger), attentive until the train arrives, in The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe, 1991, from the Carson McCullers novel.
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The Ballad of the Sad Café, first published in 1951, is a book by Carson McCullers comprising a novella of the same title along with six short stories: "Wunderkind", "The Jockey", "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland", "The Sojourner", "A Domestic Dilemma", and "A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud".
