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film, Someyimes a Great Notion, (1971, U.S.A., directed by Paul Newman, based on the 1964 novel of Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey)

film, Someyimes a Great Notion, (1971, U.S.A., directed by Paul Newman, based on the 1964 novel of Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey)

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Sometimes a Great Notion (film)

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Sometimes a Great Notion
SometimesAGreatNotionposter.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPaul Newman
Produced byJohn Foreman
Screenplay byJohn Gay
Story byKen Kesey
StarringPaul Newman
Henry Fonda
Lee Remick
Michael Sarrazin
Richard Jaeckel
Music byHenry Mancini
CinematographyRichard Moore
Editing byBob Wyman
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release datesDecember 31, 1970 (1970-12-31)
Running time113 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$4,000,000 (US/ Canada rentals)[1]
Sometimes A Great Notion (a.k.a. Never Give An Inch ) is a 1971 American drama film directed by Paul Newman and starring Newman, Henry Fonda and Lee Remick. The screenplay by John Gay is based on the 1964 novel of the same title by Ken Kesey, the first of his books to be adapted for the screen. Filmed in the summer of 1970, it was released that New Year's Eve.


Plot[edit]

The economic stability of Wakonda, Oregon, is threatened when the local logging union calls a strike against a large lumber conglomerate. When independent logger Hank Stamper and his father Henry are urged to support the strikers, they refuse, and the townspeople consider them traitors. Hank struggles to keep the small family business alive and consequently widens the rift between himself and his complacent wife Viv, who wants him to put an end to the territorial struggle but is resigned to his doing things as he sees fit. Also complicating matters is Leland Stamper, Henry's youngest son and Hank's half-brother, who returns home with a college education and experience in urban living. A heavy drinker, Lee eventually reveals he attempted suicide after his mother killed herself and has been suffering from deep depression ever since. Despite the fact he is uncomfortable living with a family he barely knows, Lee joins forces with them when they are forced to battle both the locals, who have burned their equipment, and the elements, which threaten their efforts to transport their logs downriver.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Although both Sam Peckinpah and Budd Boetticher had expressed interest in bringing Ken Kesey's novel to the screen, Richard A. Colla was signed to direct the film in May 1970. Five weeks after principal photography began, Colla left the project due to "artistic differences over photographic concept," as well as a required throat operation. At the same time, leading man Paul Newman broke his ankle, and the production shut down on July 29. As co-executive producer, Newman considered replacing Colla with George Roy Hill, who declined the offer, so when filming resumed two weeks later, Newman was directing as well as acting.[2]
The fictional community of Wakonda, Oregon was filmed in various locations in Lincoln County, Oregon along the Oregon Coast. These included Kernville and other locations along the Siletz River, as well as Yaquina Bay, the Yaquina River, and the city of Newport, where several scenes were filmed in Mo's Shanty Fish House.
The film's theme song, "All His Children," with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and music by Henry Mancini, is performed by Charley Pride.
The film was the first program to be broadcast by HBO, airing less than two years after its initial theatrical release.[3] When it was finally aired on commercial television in 1977, it was retitled Never Give A Inch [sic], a reference to the Stamper family philosophy.[2]

Critical reception[edit]

Vincent Canby of the New York Times called it "an extremely interesting, if impure (happily impure, I might add) example of a genre of action film that flourished in the 1930s in movies about tuna fishermen, bush pilots, high-wire repairmen and just about any physical pursuit you can think of . . . As in Howard Hawks's Only Angels Have Wings, these films are, at their best, considerably less simple-minded than they sound—being expressions of lives lived almost entirely in terms of rugged, essentially individualistic professionalism . . . Mr. Newman . . . has been remarkably successful both in creating vivid, quite complicated characters and in communicating the sense of beautiful idiocy that is the strength of the two older Stampers. As he showed in Rachel, Rachel, Mr. Newman knows how to direct actors . . . [His] handling of the logging and action sequences . . . is also surprisingly effective, not because of any contemporary fanciness but because of what looks like a straight-forward confidence in the subject. My only real objection to the film, I think, is a certain impatience with the screenplay, which lumberingly sets up almost a very physical and emotional crisis that can (and, indeed) must erupt before this kind of movie can be said to have decently met its obligations." [4]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film three out of four stars and described Newman as "a director of sympathy and a sort of lyrical restraint. He rarely pushes scenes to their obvious conclusions, he avoids melodrama, and by the end of Sometimes a Great Notion, we somehow come to know the Stamper family better than we expected to." [5]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Richard Jaeckel was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but lost to Ben Johnson for The Last Picture Show. Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Henry Mancini were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "All His Children" but lost to Isaac Hayes for "Theme from Shaft".

Home media[edit]

On December 18, 2012, Shout! Factory will release the film on Blu-ray for the first time.[6]

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