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Payday [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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Second Rate Country Singer-First Rate Heel
Review date: 2008-02-24 Rating: 8 out of 10
"Maury Dann, the second-rate country singer and first-rate heel played by Rip Torn." Ken Tucker
Payday is a film that left me feeling forlorn, a feeling of emptiness and what's next. Rip Torn played his character, Maury Dann, true to form. A country singer on his way down from never near the top. He cheats, wheedles, lies and moves on so easily without remorse, using whomever he needs to, I wonder what is the purpose of his life. It seems he has little regard for those who travel with him or might love him. His purpose is to make money to pay for the booze, women and song that make up his life. The surrounding players had little or no effect on me, but, of course, they made the film a whole. I can see in my mind's eye that this course of life goes on daily with hundreds of people moving through the country or rock scene. How sad a life, how very very sad.
"As a portrait of the music industry of that era -- Maury bribes DJs to play records and makes sure to get paid in cash after yowling tunes in tattered roadhouses -- the low-budget Payday is far superior to Robert Altman's overrated, condescending 1975 drama Nashville. Payday both loves its subject and never lets its antihero off the hook." Ken Tucker
Recommended. Best advice, view this film on a bright sunny day.
prisrob 02-14-08
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Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Michael C. Gwynne
Rip Torn
Elayne Heilveil
Jeff Morris
Ahna Capri
Creators:
Rip Torn (Primary Contributor)
Ahna Capri (Primary Contributor)
Richard C. Glouner (Cinematographer)
Richard Halsey (Editor)
Don Carpenter (Producer)
Don Carpenter (Writer)
Martin Fink (Producer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 0085391186366
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 2008-01-08
Universal product code (UPC): 085391186366
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Region code: 1
Running time: 103 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1972
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitled)