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The infamously troubled production of Wind Across the Everglades may have more than a little to do with the film’s air of feverish delirium, much of it radiating from Christoher Plummer in his first (and most demented) lead role, playing a game warden sent to early 20th-century Florida—then more swamp than civilization—to crack down on illegal plume hunting in the Everglades, where he bumps up against marshland potentate Burl Ives and his gang of colorful n’er-do-wells. “I remember in 1964 we saw George Cukor and confided to him that Wind Across the Everglades was one of the most beautiful American films. He broke out in a peal of laughter where all the contempt he had for this little film could be read. We were very wounded, but we have never changed our minds.” —Serge Daney

Introduction by The Theater of the Matters co-curators Graham Carter and Edward McCarry on Saturday, July 26th

Distributor: Park Circus