The Ballad of the Sad Cafe with Vanessa Redgrave: DVD Cover

    The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Director: Simon Callow Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Rod Steiger

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    • DVD Release Date: 01/18/2005
    • Original Release: 1991
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 40,435

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    New high-definition digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions; Audio commentary by director Somon Callow; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Opening Credits/Jimmy Crack Corn [6:32]
    2. Swamp Water and Moonshine [5:22]
    3. Kin to Me [6:45]
    4. Wild and Foolish Talk [3:44]
    5. Entertaining the Townsfolk [3:23]
    6. Staring Into the Dark [3:23]
    7. "You Know I Like Company" [4:56]
    8. The Price of a Human Life [5:29]
    9. Papa's Acorn [4:28]
    10. All of Us Are Sinners [5:01]
    11. Holy Matrimony [5:01]
    12. "I Ain't Finished With You" [5:24]
    13. The Lover and the Beloved [2:43]
    14. Serving Marvin Macy [5:25]
    15. The Buzzards Are Circling [7:08]
    16. Shake Hands and Come Out Fighting [10:01]
    17. Wanton Destruction [8:11]
    18. End Credits [4:37]

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    This first film directorial effort of actor Simon Callow is based on a novel by Carson McCullers -- which, in turn, was adapted for the stage by Edward Albee in 1964. Vanessa Redgrave plays a powerful Southern matriarch who, sequestered in her café/general store, holds her home town in the palm of her hand. Redgrave's benevolent despotry is threatened by the arrival of her hunchbacked cousin, Cork Hubbert (in the role played on stage by dwarf actor Michael Dunn), and her jailbird husband Keith Carradine. Unable to remove this threat to her authority by her usual means, Redgrave is reduced to challenging Carradine to a bare-knuckle fight! Carson McCullers' fascination with the disintegration of the Old South coupled with her preoccupation with the grotesque requires delicate handling (as witness Heart Is a Lonely Hunter). Callow works overtime keeping things controlled and tasteful; unfortunately, this results in a very mannered and stilted production, all too obviously betraying its stage origins. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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