It's not quite as off-the-wall as his later Skidoo, but Preminger's overripe rural Georgia drama comes close, in no small part due to its eyebrow-raising casting. Michael Caine barely keeps cockney in check as a sax-playing draft-dodger married to wealthy landowner Jane Fonda. Faye Dunaway checks in as a grotesque belle battling her husband's honorable intentions, and Burgess Meredith gives a jaw-dropping performance as the bigoted local judge overseeing it all. An overly earnest 1960s-era take on race relations and a gorgeously mounted trash melodrama combine uneasily for maximum effect in unrestrained later-Preminger style.