Wind Across the Everglades (1958) (MOD)

Wind Across the Everglades (1958) (MOD)From writer Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd) and director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause) comes this colorful turn of the 20th century adventure starring Oscar winners* Burl Ives and Christopher Plummer. When poachers hunt down birds so they can sell the feathers for women's hats, newly hired Everglades warden Walt Murdock (Plummer in his second film role) is ordered to bring in Cottonmouth (Ives), the brutal leader of the

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Marcelle Cot (Lollobrigida)

follows them

Their uneasy alliance draws them nearer each other and closer to the startling truth behind the murder

She'll also find something else: redemption for a fatal past error for which she

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Directing this blend of whimsical eccentricity and turn-of-the-century nostalgia is a filmmaker on the rise to A-List prominence: Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity

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and starring the magnificent Maggie Smith as Augusta and nimble Alec McCowen as bewildered nephew Henry

costarring Gail Patrick and Ian Hunter

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