Sometimes a Great Notion (DVD)

Paul Newman makes his directorial debut in the sweeping saga Sometimes a Great Notion. Based on the best-selling novel about a two-fisted Oregon lumber family, the story focuses on a family that bucks their close-knit timber community in order to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike. In the process, one man is killed, the family patriarch Henry (Henry Fonda) is injured, and the eldest son Hank (Paul Newman) almost loses his wife (Lee Remick) to his half brother (Michael Sarrazin). Filled with complex characters and issues that still resonate today, Sometimes a Great Notion is an intense portrait of life set against the backdrop of logging.

Starring: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel, Bennie Dobbins, Alan R. Gibbs, Bennie E. Dobbins, Fred M. Waugh, J.N. Roberts, Roy Benson, Terry J. Leonard, Linda Lawson, Cliff Potts, Sam Gilman, Lee de Broux, Jim Burk, Roy Jenson, Joe Maross, Roy Poole, Charles Tyner, Alan Gibbs, Mickey Gilbert, Dick Hudkins, Terry Leonard, Fred Lerner, Gary McLarty, Hal Needham, J. N. Roberts, Dean Smith, Fred Waugh, Fred Zendar, Ronald V. Bernard, Gene H. Altemus, Melissa Newman, Marina Lisa Moore, Martita Lara Moore, Charles Horvath, Arthur S. Newman Jr., Charles Bidwell, Robert Bryant, Ben McMahan, Richard Lee Mason

Director: David Weisbart, George Axelrod, John C. Foreman

Rating: PG