'What's your name son?'
'Quick; Ben Quick.'
The film is a hoary old hoot. I watched this with my cousin when this first came on, we were both teenagers and only interested in this mini series because we liked Miami Vice and Moonlighting and for weeks we were reciting the bad lines in a southern drawl.
Don Johnson plays the barn burner who drifts into a southern plantation town run tightly by a patriarch who is unhappy with his brood. A weaselly son, an uptight daughter and a restless, sexy one played by Cybill Sheperd. Jason Robards as the sly father who sees in Quick, a real man and in effect hires him as a stud to melt his uptight daughter.
This is a teleplay with scheming, treachery, seduction and suspicion leading to melodramatics and passion, southern style. Johnson displays an easy style mixed with angst and romantic heat. Robards turns it up a notch or two to remind the audience that he is a two time Oscar winner.
Yet the acting with its mish mash of southern accents does have an unintentional hilarious script as well as some dicey acting like many other 1980s mini series but yet it is all very entertaining.
'Quick; Ben Quick.'
The film is a hoary old hoot. I watched this with my cousin when this first came on, we were both teenagers and only interested in this mini series because we liked Miami Vice and Moonlighting and for weeks we were reciting the bad lines in a southern drawl.
Don Johnson plays the barn burner who drifts into a southern plantation town run tightly by a patriarch who is unhappy with his brood. A weaselly son, an uptight daughter and a restless, sexy one played by Cybill Sheperd. Jason Robards as the sly father who sees in Quick, a real man and in effect hires him as a stud to melt his uptight daughter.
This is a teleplay with scheming, treachery, seduction and suspicion leading to melodramatics and passion, southern style. Johnson displays an easy style mixed with angst and romantic heat. Robards turns it up a notch or two to remind the audience that he is a two time Oscar winner.
Yet the acting with its mish mash of southern accents does have an unintentional hilarious script as well as some dicey acting like many other 1980s mini series but yet it is all very entertaining.