Film Screening: Poor White Trash @ Library of Congress
July 5, 2008 by Svetlana 
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| July 11, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
free
details here:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/pickford/pickford-current.html
Poor White Trash (American National Films, 1962). Dir Harold Daniels. Wrt Edward I. Fessler. With Peter Graves, Lita Milan, Douglas Fowley, Jonathan Haze, Edwin Nelson, Tim Carey. (88 min, b&w, 35mm)
with:
Apryl and Her Baby Lamb (Atlantis Productions, 1956). With Apryl Lyna Brace, Peter Israel. (13 min, color, 16mm)
Poor White Trash (a.k.a. Bayou ) pits a soulful, menacing Cajun named Ulysees (Carey) against a boring Yankee architect played by Peter Graves. This drive-in classic provided Carey with his most substantial role outside of The World’s Greatest Sinner, and he takes full advantage of it, from his Brooklyn-on-the-Bayou accent to an incantatory dance sequence that ranks among the most unusual terpsichorean performances ever committed to celluloid.
Shown with Apryl and Her Baby Lamb , a children’s short film posessed of an unexpectedly sophisticated psychological structure akin to no less than Ingmar Bergman’s Persona. (PP)
