Sound and the Fury, The - (Original Trailer)

Sound And The Fury, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) End Of The Line

Martin Ritt directs from Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr.’s script, aiming to straighten William Faulkner’s novel’s narrative, we meet Joanne Woodward as Quentin, Ethel Waters as Dilsey, whom she’s caused to panic, and John Beal as Howard, in producer Jerry Wald’s The Sound And The Fury, 1959.

Sound And The Fury, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Hide Out In The Woods?

Louisiana teen Quentin (Joanne Woodward) has been out all night, skipping school and angering her guardian uncle-in-law Jason (Yul Brynner in a wig!), maid Dilsey (Ethel Waters) keeping peace, his mom (Francoise Rosay) griping, early in The Sound And The Fury, 1959, sort-of from William Faulkner’s novel.

Sound And The Fury, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Want Her Back

In a decisive departure from the Faulkner novel, Caddy (Margaret Leighton) returns to Jefferson, MS, hoping to reclaim her abandoned daughter (Joanne Woodward), leading to a confrontation with her by-marriage uncle and guardian Jason (wigged Yul Brynner), in The Sound And The Fury, 1959.