Desire in the Dust
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 automobile accident. He revives his love a...
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"The beginning of Desire in the Dust is captivating, and the rest of this soapy Southern drama doesn't disappoint. Jack Ging and Anne Helm canoodle in the lake, as she teases that they can't see each other anymore. It's a forbidden love, as their parents are against the match. In the next scene, Joan Bennett is singing "Happy Birthday" to her young son at a small party. Raymond Burr, up at the big house, telephones down to his servant, Rex Ingram, and tells him to wrap up the party. As the camera pans away, we see that Joan is sitting in front of a tombstone. Her little..."
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There was a 7-year age difference between Joan Bennett and Raymond Burr, playing husband and wife, and also between Burr and Martha Hyer, playing father and daughter.
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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 automobile accident. He revives his love a...