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- Release Date: 1960
- Runtime: 102 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott ... see all
- Director: William F. Claxton
- Plot: Lonnie Wilson, the son of a toothless sharecropper, Zuba Wilson, returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an... Read more
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Plenty of both desire and dust in this overbaked melodrama
Oct 04, 2005
Poseidon-3 - imdb.com
Oct 04, 2005Poseidon-3 - imdb.com
With a title like this, the key word isn't likely to be subtlety! The story concerns two Louisiana families bound together by a tragic event. Burr (completing the triad of Orson Welles in "The Long, Hot Summer" and Burl Ives... Full review
Makes God's Little Acre Look Like Little Bo Beep
Aug 11, 2005
David - imdb.com
Aug 11, 2005David - imdb.com
Heavy-breathing and faux-Southern, though shot, we are told at the end, in authentic Louisiana locations. We have incest here, folks, or hints of it. (That would be patriarch Raymond Burr and his daughter Martha Hyer.) We have nymphomania (Hyer.) We... Full review
TV actors galore in overblown southern drama
Jun 28, 2005
blanche-2 - imdb.com
Jun 28, 2005blanche-2 - imdb.com
Released in 1960, Desire in the Dust looks to have been a B movie, featuring a lot of TV actors and future TV actors: Raymond Burr, Anne Helm, Jack Ging, Edward Binns, Martha Hyer, and Brett Halsey. The film also... Full review
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Raymond Burr was already three years into Perry Mason when he decided to return to his movie-villain roots with Desire in the Dust. Burr, playing the patriarch of a Southern family, befriends the ex-convict (Ken Scott) who'd supposedly killed Burr's... ... Full Article