The Worst Southern Movies Ever Made
Bigotry, Shlock, Sterotypes, and more in Clyde Wilson's 'A Southerner's Movie Guide Part XII'
Bigotry, Shlock, Sterotypes, and more in Clyde Wilson’s ‘A Southerner’s Movie Guide Part XII’
The Worst Movies about the South: A Small Selection
(Reckonin’) - The competition here is fierce. We can only provide a sample of some of the worst. A few examples out of a vast field, many of them presenting a ludicrously distorted South.
(X) The Southerner (1945). This movie was made by a famous French director while a refugee in the U. S. during World War II. For some reason that I have never been able to discern, a lot of critics think this is some classic achievement. All I see is a dull, meandering thing by people who know nothing about Southerners. It smacks of “Soviet realism.”
(X)Hurry Sundown. Landowner beating up on poor blacks and whites.
(X) Fled and (X) I Walk the Line. Chain gangs, evil Southern sheriff stories that have been around since the Abolitionists.
(X) A Face in the Crowd. Andy Griffith against type as the worst sort of despicable Southern demagogue.
(X) God’s Little Acre, the ultimate po’ white trash fantasy…
This is a result of not nothing what you're talking about but putting it in films anyway to make a Buck from the Northern Bigots.