The Sound and the Fury (1959 film)

E516849

The Sound and the Fury (1959 film) is a drama adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, featuring Yul Brynner in a leading role in a story about a Southern family’s decline.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
The Sound and the Fury (1959 film) canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf film
adaptationOf The Sound and the Fury (novel)
basedOn The Sound and the Fury
basedOnWorkAuthor William Faulkner
castMember Albert Dekker
Betty Lou Keim
Ethel Waters
Francoise Rosay
linked to: Françoise Rosay

Jack Warden
Joanne Woodward
John Beal
Margaret Leighton
Stuart Whitman
Yul Brynner
cinematographer Ernest Haller
colorProcess DeLuxe Color
composer Alex North
countryOfOrigin United States
director Martin Ritt
distributor 20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
linked to: 20th Century Fox
editor Dorothy Spencer
filmingProcess CinemaScope
genre drama film
hasAdaptationType literary adaptation
hasSourceMaterialGenre modernist novel
isBlackAndWhite false
language English
leadCharacter Jason Compson
linked to: Jason Compson IV
mainTheme decline of a Southern aristocratic family
family conflict
loss and decay
narrativeFocus Southern family’s decline
novelPublicationYear 1929
portraysFamily Compson family
producer Jerry Wald
productionCompany Jerry Wald Productions
releaseDate 1959-03-06
releaseYear 1959
runtimeMinutes 110
screenwriter Harriet Frank Jr.
Irving Ravetch
setIn Mississippi
setInRegion American South
sourceMaterialLanguage English
stars Yul Brynner

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yul Brynner notableWork The Sound and the Fury (1959 film)
Harriet Frank Jr. notableWork The Sound and the Fury (1959 film)