Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
- Starring:
- Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, (more)
- Director(s):
- Nicholas Ray, Budd Schulberg, (more)
Synopsis of Wind Across the Everglades
Wind Across the Everglades represents the once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between director Nicholas Ray and screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and a strange little picture it is indeed. In his second film appearance, Christopher Plummer plays bibulous 19th-century Florida game warden Walt Murdock, who declares war on the poachers in his region. This brings him in direct conflict with the legendary Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), the spiritual leader of a group of illegal birdhunters. The highly eccentric supporting cast includes Gypsy Rose Lee as a sensuous farm wife, boxer "Two Ton" Tony Galento as a lout named Beef, circus clown Emmett Kelly as the much-married Bigamy Bob, novelist Mackinlay Kantor as the regional judge, and Peter Falk in his film debut, as an owlish writer. After Wind Across the Everglades, Nick Ray's Johnny Guitar will seem as antiseptic as Heidi. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Wind Across the Everglades
- Burl Ives - Cottonmouth
- Gypsy Rose Lee - Mrs. Bradford
- Tony Galento - Beef
- Peter Falk - Writer
- Pat Henning - Sawdust
- Curt Conway - Perfesser
- MacKinlay Kantor - Judge Harris
- Sumner Williams - Windy
- Owen Pavitt - Sheriff
- Christopher Plummer - Walt Murdock
- George Voskovec - Aaron Nathanson
- Emmett Kelly, Jr. - Bigamy Bob
- Howard I. Smith - George Leggett
- Chana Eden - Naomi
- Toch Brown - One-Note
- Hank Simms - Narrator
- Sandra Schulberg
- Director(s):
- Nicholas Ray, Budd Schulberg
- Writer(s):
- Budd Schulberg
- Producer(s):
- Stuart Schulberg
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