Lady From Louisiana - BLU-RAY

Northern Lawyer John Reynolds (John Wayne) goes up against the lottery racket in 1880 corrupt Louisiana. While to the riverboat to New Orleans, he meets and falls in love with Southern Belle, Julie (Ona Munson), General Anatole Mirbeau's beautiful daughter. The General (Henry Stephenson) and his right-hand man Blackburn 'Blackie' Williams (Ray Middleton) run the popular Louisiana State Lottery Company, which support illegal activities and brothels while corrupting judges and other city officials. The battle between the men are complicated with Reynolds' love for the General's daughter and interrupted by torrential rain storms that breaks the levees, floods the city and threatens to destroy the city of New Orleans. Stylishly directed by Bernard Vorhaus who had previously directed John Wayne in the memorable drama, Three Faces West. Includes an early performance by Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones).

Bizarrely captivating and equally ambiguous drama juxtaposes time and memory, fantasy and reality, and the past and present, with Giorgio Albertazzi as a man who relentlessly tries to convince a woman (Delphine Seyrig), a guest at a posh chateau, that they met a year earlier and had planned to meet again. Alain Resnais and novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet's collaboration co-stars Sacha Pitoëff. 94 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack French; Subtitles English; audio commentary; bonus short InchToute la Memoire du MondeInch (1957); interview; visual essay; featurette. In French with English subtitles.

This delightful documentary takes you an amazing ride as it celebrates the wonderful variety of French Louisiana's treasured musical heritage. In the intimacy of their homes as well as in rollicking honky-tonks.