Desire in the Dust: rare Joan Bennett Film on FMC Sat 1/24

[David]

On Sat Jan 24th, Fox Movie Channel will air Desire in the Dust.
This "Southern Gothic" has never been released on VHS or DVD~~the 1960 film was Joan Bennett's last until HODS.

Check listings for air times in your time zone.

David

[Mysterious Benefactor]

When I first saw just the beginning of the title of this topic on the BoardIndex page (Desire in the Dust: ...), I thought it was going to be about some porn film. (Not that you would ever bring up pornos on the forum.  ) But it was nice to see it's about a rare JB film. Thanks for the info. 

[David]

 

Watch porn?
MOI?

David

[Mysterious Benefactor]

True - you never would. What was I thinking?!

[MsCriseyde]

This "Southern Gothic" has never been released on VHS or DVD~~the 1960 film was Joan Bennett's last until HODS.

Dust? If it were truly Southern, it would be Desire in the Intense Humidity. 

[Gothick]

The Fox Movie Channel site says 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. tomorrow.

DESIRE IN THE DUST (WS)
Year:1960
Rating: TV-PG, D
Southern aristocrat (Raymond Burr) with a yen for politics tries to hide
some family members' pasts.

Cast and Crew:
Joan Bennett, Irene Ryan, Raymond Burr, Ken Scott, Martha Hyer, William
Claxton, Rex Ingram, Edward Binns

[Midnite]

Website times are Eastern, so 7 a.m. Pacific Time

[David]

I just watched Desire in the Dust:
a very Peyton Place like film with nasty characters screwing each other in more ways than one~~the film must have been considered quite risque in it's day!

Joan's role was small but she was terrific!
She'll break your heart as a mentally ill bereaved mother:
the scene where she holds a birthday party by her son's
grave is creepy: some definite DS foreshadowing! 

Fox Movies will air the film again on Feb 26th.

David

[Charles_Ellis]

I saw this movie some years back, and it's certainly trashy!  Kinda like the 'southern gothic' flix Russ Meyer did a few years later, like MudHoney, but without the nudity.  The opening 'birthday party' is definitely out of DS, but Joan as Martha Hyer's mom?  How old was she when she was born- 12? 

[David]

Joan was born in 1910~~Martha Hyer in 1924.
A 14 year age difference might be pushing it, but you never know with those Southern shotgun weddings!

David

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And actors often take on roles that are supposed to be older/younger than themselves in real life. For example, just look at how many 20-somethings play characters in their mid-teens...

[David]

 

Stockard Channing was 35, yes, 35, when she played a high schooler in Grease (1978)

David N

[MsCriseyde]

And actors often take on roles that are supposed to be older/younger than themselves in real life.

Precisely. One of the more notable examples from series television is Barbara Bel Geddes and Larry Hagman as mother and son on Dallas. She was only about nine years older than him.

Selby's about to play a 53-year-old Abraham Lincoln, and it doesn't exactly require higher math to figure out that he's older than that.

I think that's why they call it acting. 

[David]

In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt & Robert Flemyng play father & son: both actors are just around 40.

In DS' 1795 story, Louis Edmonds & Frid played Father & son: they were one year apart in real life age.

David

[Josette]

In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt & Robert Flemyng play father & son: both actors are just around 40.

That one doesn't seem quite the same - I haven't seen it yet, but I know that he starts as an old man and gets younger, so his relation to others at various times would be different.  I suppose at times he would be the same age as his father and at times older.