Scorchers

Scorchers
Scorchers
	Redesigned Scorchers DVD cover
Directed by	David Beaird
Written by	David Beaird
Produced by	Morrie Eisenman and Richard Hellman
Starring	Faye Dunaway; Denholm Elliott; James Earl Jones; Emily Lloyd; Jennifer Tilly
Narrated by	Leland Crooke (opening and closing monologues)
Cinematography	Peter Deming
Edited by	David Garfield
Music by	Carter Burwell
Production; company	Goldcrest Films
Distributed by	Rank Film Distributors (United Kingdom); Media Home Entertainment through Fox Video (United States)
Release date	March 1991;
Running time	88 minutes
Countries	United States; United Kingdom
Language	English

Scorchers is a 1991 ensemble drama written and directed by David Beaird with a cast of Faye Dunaway, James Earl Jones, Denholm Elliott, Leland Crooke and Emily Lloyd. The film is based on David Beaird's 1985 stage play of the same name which premiered at the Equity Waiver Theater in Los Angeles, also featuring Leland Crooke in the cast.^[1]

Plot[edit]

Scorchers takes place in Cajun Louisiana on the wedding night of a young woman named Splendid (played by Emily Lloyd). Splendid is scared to death of what will happen in the bedroom with her new husband Dolan (James Wilder) and her father, Jumper (Leland Crooke), finds himself having to coax his daughter to submit to the groom.

Meanwhile, Talbot (Jennifer Tilly) comes to terms with the fact that her husband has not been satisfied at home and has been cheating on her, as the town prostitute, Thais (Faye Dunaway) shares her wisdom on the ways of men—all this takes place while the town bartender, Bear (James Earl Jones) and the town drunk, Howler (Denholm Elliott), debate the finer points of music and life.

Cast[edit]

Faye Dunaway as Thais
James Earl Jones as Bear
Denholm Elliott as Howler
Leland Crooke as Jumper
Emily Lloyd as Splendid
Jennifer Tilly as Talbot
James Wilder as Dolan
Luke Perry as Ray Ray
Anthony Geary as Preacher
Kevin Michael Brown as Sugar Cat
Michael Covert as Pie Boy
Saxon Trainor as Renee
Patrick Warburton as Balford

Soundtrack[edit]

Title	Composer	Performer	Master Provided by	Courtesy of
Les Flammes D'Enfer	Traditional	Mamou	Jungle Productions/Austin, Texas
Tit Galop Pour Mamou	Dewey Balfa	Mamou	Jungle Productions	Flat Town Music Co.
Bayou Teche	Nathan Abshire	Mamou	Jungle Productions	Flat Town Music Co.
Jolie Blonde	Traditional	Mamou	Jungle Productions
La Louisiane	Steve LaFleur	Mamou	Jungle Productions	Stephen LaFleur Music
Symphony No. 5 - Adagietto	Gustav Mahler	The Budapest Festival Orchestra	Ivan Fischer	Delta Music, Inc.

Home media[edit]

The DVD was released by Trinity Home Entertainment in January 2005, but in full screen and without any bonus material. However, the DVD does have an opening monologue by Leland Crooke that was absent from the original VHS release.

References[edit]

^ Svitil, Torene (July 6, 1990). "The Little Play That Could: Film: Five years ago, 'Scorchers' was playing in a 60-seat Equity Waiver theater. Writer-director David Beaird did an end run around the studios to get his vision on the screen". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2019-03-03.

External links[edit]

Scorchers at IMDb

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[1] Svitil, Torene (July 6, 1990). "The Little Play That Could: Film: Five years ago, 'Scorchers' was playing in a 60-seat Equity Waiver theater. Writer-director David Beaird did an end run around the studios to get his vision on the screen". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2019-03-03.

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