Directed by:
Paul NewmanScreenplay:
John GayCinematography:
Richard MooreComposer:
Henry ManciniCast:
Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel, Linda Lawson, Cliff Potts, Hal Needham, Terry Leonard, Charles Tyner, Roy Jenson (more)VOD (1)
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Paul Newman makes his directorial debut in the sweeping saga Sometimes a Great Notion. Based on the best-selling novel about a two-fisted Oregon lumber family, the story focuses on a family that bucks their close-knit timber community in order to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike. In the process, one man is killed, the family patriarch Henry (Henry Fonda) is injured, and the eldest son Hank (Paul Newman) almost loses his wife (Lee Remick) to his half brother (Michael Sarrazin). Filled with complex characters and issues that still resonate today, Sometimes a Great Notion is an intense portrait of life set against the backdrop of logging. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Paul Newman
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Sting (1973)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Henry Fonda
USA
Best movies:
12 Angry Men (1957)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Lee Remick
USA
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
The Omen (1976)
Michael Sarrazin
Canada
Best movies:
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Richard Jaeckel
USA
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The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
Linda Lawson
USA
Best movies:
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Apache Rifles (1964)
Night Tide (1961)
Cliff Potts
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Cry for Me, Billy (1972)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Hal Needham
USA
Best movies:
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
French Connection 2 (1975)
Nickelodeon (1976)
Terry Leonard
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Charles Tyner
USA
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Fail-Safe (1964)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Roy Jenson
Canada
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Chinatown (1974)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Sam Gilman
USA
Best movies:
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Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
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Charles Horvath
USA
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Fred Lerner
USA
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Papillon (1973)
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Lee de Broux
USA
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Chinatown (1974)
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Roy Poole
USA
Best movies:
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Network (1976)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Joe Maross
USA
Best movies:
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Rich and Famous (1981)
Dean Smith
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
El Dorado (1966)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)