Set in 1968, Coming Home premiered three years after the fall of Saigon. Two veterans return, both deeply wounded but in different ways.
Based on a novel by William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust centers on a black man in Mississippi accused of killing a white man.
During a whirlwind courtship, a young woman brings her fiancé home to meet the parents. But she’s white and he’s black, and her upper middle-class parents’ liberal values are put to the test.
While most noirs have lover’s jealousy or greed as criminal motivation, Crossfire’s plot engine is fueled by anti-Semitism.
Broken Arrow is now seen as the progenitor of revisionist westerns such as Little Big Man, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Dances With Wolves.
