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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Martin Ritt</title>
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		<title>SOUNDER &#8211; Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dan Erdman</dc:creator>
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Sounder (1972)
Direction: Martin Ritt
Screenplay: Lonne Elder III; from William H. Armstrong&#8217;s book
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, James Best
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Sounder probably features more extremely  wide shots than any movie besides Lawrence of Arabia &#8212; and Martin Ritt&#8217;s movie is only  half as long.  Time and again, humans become antish dots on the horizon, visually overwhelmed by the vast  wilderness around them.  It&#8217;s Ritt&#8217;s way  of establishing the world of David (Kevin Hooks), a young boy living in the Louisiana woods  with his sharecropper family and the titular dog.  That world completely envelops   him in these shots, which perform  the old pastoral trick of contrasting the human  and [...]]]></description>
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