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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Not For Children Movie Release: 1966 DVD Release: 02/24/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 12 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 8 Genres: Drama, Melodrama

All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday when news filters in that wild child Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) has jumped prison. Bubber's impending arrival arouses hostility among Tarl's citizens, such as Edwin Stewart (Robert Duvall), who believes that Bubber will come after him to settle an old score, and Damon Puller (Richard Bradford), who, between grope sessions with Edwin's wife Emily (Janice Rule), uses Bubber as an excuse to terrorize black residents. As the atmosphere heats up, Calder wants to keep Bubber alive, and he convinces Bubber's wife Anna (Jane Fonda) and her lover, Val's son Jake (James Fox), to find Bubber and coax him into surrender. Val's fear that Bubber will kill his son, however, sparks a long confrontation that leaves rational law and order pummeled into the ground by the town's ignorant cruelty. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

Marlon Brando - Sheriff Calder
Jane Fonda - Anna Reeves
Robert Redford - Bubber Reeves
James Fox - Jake Jason Rogers
E.G. Marshall - Val Rogers
Angie Dickinson - Ruby Calder

Arthur Penn's 1966 drama The Chase comes to DVD for the first time from Columbia TriStar Home Video. Presented with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves its original aspect ratio. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. Subtitles are available in English, French, Japanese, and Korean. Closed captions are also accessible. The only special features are theatrical previews. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide