The Sound and the Fury (1959)

Cast

Yul Brynner
as Jason Compson
Joanne Woodward
as Quentin Compson / Narrator
Jack Warden
as Ben Compson
Stuart Whitman
as Charlie Busch

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Genres & Description

Action Drama

6.4 / 10

Loosely based on the William Faulkner novel, this movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Howard passes the time in a bottle; his brother Bengy is child in a man's body; sister Caddy has come crawling home after years of being kept by a string of "admirers". Only Jason, the cruel, cold-hearted adopted head of the family, and Quentin, who was abandoned at birth by Caddy, have the fire and the fury needed to put the family back on its feet again.