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1980 Directed by Harry Falk , Virgil W. Vogel

AN EPIC SAGA OF WAR, LOVE AND BETRAYAL IN THE OLD SOUTH.

A young Southern belle becomes the mistress of a magnificent plantation.

Lesley Ann Warren Michael Sarrazin Eddie Albert Hope Lange Paul Rudd Dorian Harewood Martha Scott Paul Shenar Allyn Ann McLerie Jenny Agutter Don Johnson Meredith Baxter Clarice Taylor Robert Walker Jr. Madeleine Stowe Jean Foster Bibi Osterwald Kyle Richards Kristoff St. John

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Harry Falk Virgil W. Vogel

Producer Producer

Christopher Morgan

Writer Writer

Jacques Meunier

Original Writer Original Writer

Lonnie Coleman

Cinematography Cinematography

Andrew Jackson

Executive Producer Exec. Producer

David Gerber

Production Design Production Design

Edward C. Carfagno

Set Decoration Set Decoration

David Horowitz

Composer Composer

Allyn Ferguson

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Columbia Pictures Television David Gerber Productions

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La plantación Beulah, Geliebtes Land

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Beulah Land was a three-part NBC TV miniseries, broadcast in October 1980, based on Lonnie Coleman’s novels Beulah Land and Look Away, Beulah Land . (Coleman wrote a third novel in the series, Legacy of Beulah Land , that was published in 1981.)

It seems almost totally forgotten. I only came across it because I’m working my way through Jenny Agutter's filmography.

It starts out somewhat promisingly. Perhaps because of the influence of Roots (1977) and Roots: The Next Generations (1979), the narrative in the first installment of Beulah Land continually underlines the idea that the "good plantation master" was a myth, since the entire system of slavery was brutal and dehumanizing. (Sadly, this is a concept that continues to be controversial…

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An epic story of the Old South, BEULAH LAND follows the trials and tribulations of Sarah Kendick (Leslie Ann Warren), a strong-willed woman who runs a thriving plantation in antebellum Georgia. Married to a man whose wasteful ways take her family to the brink of ruin, Sarah struggles to endure family betrayals, extramarital affairs, financial hardship and General Sherman's troops in a sweeping series of adventures that follow the Kendrick clan before, during, and after the American Civil War. Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert, Hope Lange, Paul Rudd, Martha Scott, Don Johnson, Meredith Baxter Birney, Jenny Agutter, Jonathan Frakes, and Madeline Stowe co-star in this compelling, Emmy(r)-nominated mini-series, based on the best-selling novels by Lonnie Coleman.

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This florid amalgam of a pair of novels by Lonnie Coleman about the Old South had ambitions to be the TV equivalent of "Gone With the Wind" in its telling of a young southern belle who becomes mistress of a magnificent plantation. Trouble-plagued throughout its production (the original director, Virgil Vogel, had a heart attack and was replaced by Harry Falk, and JP Miller, author of "Days of Wine and Roses" and many other distinguished television plays, asked to have his name replaced by a pseudonym after too many changes were made in his original script), "Beulah Land" then went on to face a hostile reception from many black factions because of its harsh depiction of slaves and its miscegenation subplot. It did, however, win an Emmy Award nomination for costume design.

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“BEULAH LAND” (1980) Review

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In the fall of 1980, NBC Television had aired a three-part miniseries called,  ”BEULAH LAND” . Starring Lesley-Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Dorian Harewood and Paul Rudd, the miniseries told the story of an 19th century Savannah-born woman named Sarah Pennington and her impact upon the Kendrick family and their cotton plantation in Georgia between the years 1827 and 1872.

The miniseries was based upon two novels by Lonnie Coleman –  ”Beulah Land” and  ”Look Away, Beulah Land” It featured a cast that included television and movie stars Lesley-Ann Warren, Eddie Albert, Hope Lange, Michael Sarrazin, Dorian Harewood, Meredith Baxter, James Eachin, Paul Rudd, Don Johnson, Jonathan Frakes, Jenny Agutter, Franklyn Seales and Madeline Stowe.

Recently, I had just finished watching  “Beulah Land” . To my surprise, I still found it enjoyable. Unlike other antebellum and Civil War sagas like  ”NORTH AND SOUTH” and  ”THE BLUE AND THE GRAY” , the setting for Beulah Land seemed to be restricted to southeast Georgia, with brief forays to Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. It has its usual stock of family melodrama – sometimes portrayed in an over-the-top manner by some of the cast members. It also gave an interesting look at the ambiguous relationships between slaves and slave owners; whites and blacks – regardless of whether they were free or slave; and between wealthy and poor whites in the antebellum South. There had been accusations by some that  ”BEULAH LAND” had skimmed the darker aspects of American slavery or indulged in a negative and clichéd portrayal of the African-American characters. All I can say is that whoever made these accusations had not seen the miniseries. Here are more observations I had made:

1. The period in which Lauretta Pennington (Meredith Baxter) and her son-in-law, Adam Davis (Jonathan Frakes) experienced  The Siege of Atlanta , is erroneous. According to the miniseries, the actual siege took place during mid-November 1864. William Sherman’s siege of Atlanta occurred between late July and early September of the same year. Lauretta and Adam left Atlanta around the same time Sherman began his march through Georgia.

2. I have noticed that Lauretta and other citizens fleeing Atlanta hardly seemed to be expressing any signs of panic, while dodging Union shells. Very odd.

3. Jonathan Frakes is a first-class actor, but his Southern accent was not very good in this miniseries. It was a good thing that he had portrayed a Northerner in the  ”NORTH AND SOUTH” Trilogy.

4. Unlike most of the actresses in the  ”NORTH AND SOUTH” Trilogy, the ones in  ”BEULAH LAND” must have avoided wigs. Which would account for their loose and natural hairstyles.

5. The first fifteen minutes of  ”BEULAH LAND” was set in 1827. Yet the female costumes had resembled fashions of the 1840s. As the miniseries progressed, the costumes became more accurate. But not completely.

6. For me, the following actors and actresses gave the best performances – Lesley Ann Warren (Sarah Pennington Kendrick), Dorian Harewood (Floyd), Eddie Albert (Felix Kendrick), Paul Rudd (Leon Kendrick), Paul Shenar (Roscoe Coltray), James McEachin (Ezra), Jean Foster (Pauline), Don Johnson (Bonnard Davis), Hope Lange (Deborah Kendrick),Franklyn Seales (Roman Kendrick), Allyn Ann McLerie (Edna Davis) and Jenny Agutter (Lizzie Coltray).

7. Meredith Baxter would have made the list, if it were not for her occasional bouts of hammy acting. However, I have noticed a good number of other performers like Illene Graff (Annabel Davis), Clarice Taylor (Lovey), Laurie Prange (Rachel Kendrick Davis), K.C. Martel (Young Benjamin Davis), and especially Bibi Osterwald (Nell Kendrick) really tend to chew the scenery. Along with a good number of performers in minor roles.

8. Below is a list of what I consider to be the best scenes:

*Selma (Madeleine Stowe) and Bonnard’s wedding night *Slaves’ talk in the kitchen during Sarah and Leon’s wedding reception *Sarah and Floyd become aware of their attraction toward one another *Lauretta’s revelation of her affair with Leon *Rachel and Edna Davis’s deaths *Death of corrupt Union sergeant *Floyd’s death

”BEULAH LAND” is not what I would call a work of art. And to be frank, I can say the same about the novels in which it is based upon. As for this belief that the African-American characters were portrayed in an embarrassing and clichéd manner as  ”docile and happy” slaves – it is not true. The only times the slaves appeared  ”happy and docile” over their situation, occurred when they were faking this attitude toward their white owners. Although  ”BEULAH LAND” is not great television, I have to give it kudos for its accurate portrayal of the surprisingly complex and ambiguous society of the antebellum South. I say . . . give it a shot.

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Beulah Land was a three-night drama series adapted from the Deep South novels by Lonnie Coleman, a novelist/playwright from Georgia.

All the familiar ingredients were there: the powerful women who love their plantations as passionately as they do their men (until the man comes along, of course; in this case, it’s Yankee artist Casey Troy, played by Michael Sarrazin, but think Rhett Butler or Clark Gable); the contented slaves on one plantation, and the less contented ones on a neighbour’s; the black maid who talks such an endearing patois (remember the immortal Butterfly McQueen in this role in Gone With the Wind , giving a performance that threatened to run away with the picture?) – and pulsing away in the background all the while is the surge of history, the threat of the Civil War (high-spirited women stand up to the Yankee invasion), the destruction of a society and its (painful) attempts at rebuilding.

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All the writings of William Faulkner, for instance, all the speeches of Martin Luther King , all the decades of violence, have never managed to dislodge totally that other Deep South, the dream world originally created by Margaret Mitchell.

Shot on location in Mississippi and set between 1827 and 1872, the sweeping drama followed the fortunes of Beulah Land, the Kendrick family home, from the heights of its splendour to its destruction during the American Civil War and beyond.

Lesley Ann Warren played Sarah Pennington, who becomes the mistress of the plantation through marriage to inept and immature heir Leon Kendrick (Paul Rudd). She gradually becomes obsessed with keeping the land.

In the meantime, she has to deal with her selfish, philandering sister Lauretta (Meredith Baxter Birney); snarling, confrontational overseer Roscoe Corlay (Paul Shenar) who has designs on owning Beulah Land himself; withdrawn, mentally-bruised sister-in-law Selma (Madeleine Stowe); and various other troublesome relatives, slaves, Yankees and so on.

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Throughout the three nights, viewers were beaten over the head with a collection of phoney Southern accents that sounded as if the cast had learned their dialogue by watching episodes of Hee Haw .

Amongst the people most likely to be offended by  Beulah Land were black people, historians, Southerners whose families did not own great plantations, men in general, Yankees and anyone of average intelligence.

WLBT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, pulled the series even though much of it had been filmed near the town and lots of local people had bit parts in it.  General Manager, Bill Dilday, made the decision following the recent shooting of a black woman by a white policeman and subsequent black protests (with the Klan counter-demonstrating).

Dilday recalls, “everybody was angry, and it just didn’t seem to be the right time to run a touchy program like  Beulah Land .”

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Robin Wright ’s directorial debut “Land,” premiering this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, is a confident drama about multiple forms of isolation. Edee (Wright) is isolated emotionally by a horrible tragedy and the lingering grief that has made her suicidal. Almost as if she’s trying to mirror how alone she feels on the inside, she isolates herself physically too, going to a remote cabin and trying to live off the land. Wright’s film is a lyrical character study about two deeply pained people who find purpose in one another. Even as the vast landscape around them seems to recall the insignificance of one person against the beauty of Mother Nature, “Land” suggests that isolation isn’t the answer and connection is what matters. It’s a smart, moving piece of work, hampered a bit by a rushed final act that feels somewhat manipulative but confidently acted throughout.

Wright does a great deal of character work in the film’s first half-hour with almost no dialogue. The long opening credits find Edee driving to a remote cabin in the mountains. When she tells the man who guided her there to come and get the rental car when he can, he suggests that it’s safer to have a vehicle up here. Edee doesn’t care about safety. There’s a lack of preparation for what’s about to face Edee that almost leans into the flashbacks that hint at her suicidal nature following an undisclosed tragedy. It’s as if Edee is fine with the Earth reclaiming her. She doesn’t know how to hunt or trap; she doesn’t have enough supplies; winter is coming. If she dies out here, so be it. It's almost like watching someone slowly drown, hundreds of miles from the ocean.

Writers Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam withhold the details about what has driven Edee to a place that almost feels built by Mother Nature to kill her other than brief flashbacks to a sister named Emma ( Kim Dickens ) begging Edee not to commit suicide and glimpses of a man and a boy, who it becomes clear are Edee’s lost family. At its core, “Land” is a story of unimaginable grief, the kind of pain that reshapes the landscape. Imagine something so horrible happening to you that the world around you looks entirely different—why not change your setting as extremely as moving from the city of Chicago to the Rocky Mountains? As a performer, Wright smartly imbues Edee with what almost feels like constant pain in the film’s first act. It’s such a stark, gloomy story that we start to feel Edee’s non-stop sadness with her.

And then “Land” shifts gears by introducing a hunter named Miguel ( Demián Bichir ) and a nurse named Alawa (Sarah Dawn Pledge). Not only do they save Edee’s life, Miguel becomes an unexpected ally and even teacher. He promises not to tell Edee anything of the outside world, maintaining her self-isolation, and he doesn’t say much. He’s going to give her the tools to survive, and then be gone. And he has some trauma and grief of his own to bring on the hunting trip.

As a director, Wright and cinematographer Bobby Bukowski (“ 99 Homes ”) strike a nice balance between lyrical shots of the gorgeous backdrop and close-ups that reveal their characters’ trauma. It’s a beautiful film that also never loses its sense of danger. There's a shot late in the film in which Edee is standing near the edge of a cliff and I was convinced she was going to fall. "Land" has a finely tuned balance between the beauty of this world and the fact that that beauty hides so many aspects that can kill you, from bears looking for food to brutal winter snowstorms to, yes, cliffs. Anne McCabe & Mikkel E.G. Nielsen’s editing deserves praise for finding this balance too.

However, “Land” works best as a performance piece for two excellent actors. Wright nails every aspect of this character, particularly the way she internalizes her grief and uses that empty pain to push herself to survive. Bichir matches her with a very different performance that’s no less powerful. Neither character gets much to say—and the dialogue is often the weakest aspect of the film in that it’s sometimes a bit too unrealistic—but that allows Wright and Bichir to do a great deal of physical acting. Most importantly, they sell how these two people end up needing each other without resorting to melodrama. They have chemistry as two fully believable, three-dimensional characters unexpectedly sharing the same space.

Some of the final scenes of “Land” feel unearned, and I found the film far more effective in its silence than its dialogue. A simple shot of a man sitting on a porch with his eyes closed, the sun on his face, can be more powerful than an overwritten monologue.

The song “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears becomes a recurring joke in “Land” as Miguel sings it a few times, and it’s tempting to pull apart the lyrics and how they reflect in the story of the film. After all, it does feature the lines “Turn your back on mother nature” and “It’s my own design/It’s my own remorse,” both of which could sound explicitly like they’re about Edee’s story. However, there’s a line in the chorus that is also important to remember when it comes to depression and grief, emotions that can sometimes feel like they’ll never end: “Nothing ever lasts forever.”

This review was filed in conjunction with the world premiere at Sundance on January 31 st , 2021. It will open in theaters on February 12 th , 2021.

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This miniseries double feature set drops the spotlight twice on the Cival War for tales of romance, hardships and more. Includes Beulah Land (Lesley Ann Warren,Michael Sarrazin. 1980/4 hrs..,27 min.) and The Blue and the Gray (Gregory Peck, Stacy Keach. 1979/4hrs.,22 min.)

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 46141
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 4 hours and 56 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 16, 2015
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Thai
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Thai
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00WBJSO56
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 5
  • #16,876 in DVD

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  1. Beulah Land (TV Mini Series 1980)

    Beulah Land: With Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert, Hope Lange. Miniseries detailing the lives of two Civil War families.

  2. Beulah Land (TV Mini Series 1980)

    Wuchakk 25 June 2017. RELEASED IN 1980 and DIRECTED BY Harry Falk & Virgil W. Vogel, "Beulah Land" focuses on the titular Georgia plantation in Antebellum South, starting in 1827 and proceeding well past the Civil War. MAIN CAST: Lesley Ann Warren stars as the emerging matriarch, Sarah, who basically takes over the plantation after marrying the ...

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    Beulah Land is a 1980 three-part television miniseries which aired on NBC. The series was based on the novels Beulah Land, and Look Away, Beulah Land by Lonnie Coleman. ... the New York Times review was titled "Pure Corn Pone"; and The Washington Post review was decidedly negative, calling it an "idiotic, inept, cynically exploitative travesty."

  4. ‎Beulah Land (1980) directed by Harry Falk, Virgil W. Vogel • Reviews

    Review by Adam L. Beulah Land was a three-part NBC TV miniseries, broadcast in October 1980, based on Lonnie Coleman's novels Beulah Land and Look Away, Beulah Land. (Coleman wrote a third novel in the series, Legacy of Beulah Land, that was published in 1981.) It seems almost totally forgotten.

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    Lesley Ann Warren (Sarah Pennington)Michael Sarrazin (Casey Troy)Eddie Albert (Felix Kendrick)Hope Lange (Deborah Kendrick)Paul Rudd (Leon Kendrick)Dorian Harewood (Floyd)Martha Scott (Penelope ...

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    "BEULAH LAND" (1980) Review In the fall of 1980, NBC Television had aired a three-part miniseries called, "BEULAH LAND".Starring Lesley-Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Dorian Harewood and Paul Rudd, the miniseries told the story of an 19th century Savannah-born woman named Sarah Pennington and her impact upon the Kendrick family and their cotton plantation in Georgia during the years 1827 ...

  7. Beulah Land (1980)

    Beulah Land is an edited, movie-length version of the three-part TV miniseries adaptation of Lonnie Coleman's multi-part novels. The film is set in the Old South, with a time span ranging from 1827 to the postwar Reconstruction Era.

  8. "BEULAH LAND" (1980) Review

    "BEULAH LAND" (1980) Review In the fall of 1980, NBC Television had aired a three-part miniseries called, "BEULAH LAND".Starring Lesley-Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Dorian Harewood and Paul Rudd, the miniseries told the story of an 19th century Savannah-born woman named Sarah Pennington and her impact upon the Kendrick family and their cotton plantation in Georgia during the years 1827 ...

  9. BEULAH LAND

    Drama. An epic story of the Old South, BEULAH LAND follows the trials and tribulations of Sarah Kendick (Leslie Ann Warren), a strong-willed woman who runs a thriving plantation in antebellum Georgia. Married to a man whose wasteful ways take her family to the brink of ruin, Sarah struggles to endure family betrayals, extramarital affairs ...

  10. Beulah Land (1980)

    Brief Synopsis. Read More. This florid amalgam of a pair of novels by Lonnie Coleman about the Old South had ambitions to be the TV equivalent of "Gone With the Wind" in its telling of a young southern belle who becomes mistress of a magnificent plantation. Trouble-plagued throughout its production (the original director, Vir.

  11. "BEULAH LAND" (1980) Review

    "BEULAH LAND" (1980) Review In the fall of 1980, NBC Television had aired a three-part miniseries called, "BEULAH LAND". Starring Lesley-Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Dorian Harewood and Paul Rudd, the miniseries told the story of an 19th century Savannah-born woman named Sarah Pennington and her impact upon the Kendrick family and their cotton plantation…

  12. Beulah Land (TV Mini Series 1980)

    Miniseries detailing the lives of two Civil War families. This sweeping epic dramatized the lives of two Georgia families during the early-to-mid 1800s: the Kendricks, who resided on the Beulah Land plantation, and the Davises, who owned the Oaks plantation. Both families loved, prospered and lost during this period, and were both touched by ...

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    Tommie Stewart. Myrtis. Rosia Wade-Grisler. 1 9 8 0 (USA) 3 x 120 minute episodes Beulah Land was a three-night drama series adapted from the Deep South novels by Lonnie Coleman, a novelist/playwright from Georgia. All the familiar ingredients were there: the powerful women who love their plantations as passionately as they do their men (until ...

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    I've watched Beulah Land 3 times already and still want to see it again. Part of the fascination is how the movie doesn't show the civil war battlefield violence, or the physical brutality of slavery except through its effects on the black and white characters who are destroyed in their own personal lives as mothers, wives, lovers, daughters, fathers, husbands.

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    Beulah Land. 1980. 2 hr 10 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Lonnie Coleman's saga of Southern plantation life, from 1827 to post-Civil War Reconstruction. Lesley Ann Warren, Paul Rudd, Meredith Baxter ...

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    Watch the first part of the epic TV series Beulah Land, based on the bestselling novels by Lonnie Coleman.

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    Robin Wright 's directorial debut "Land," premiering this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, is a confident drama about multiple forms of isolation. Edee (Wright) is isolated emotionally by a horrible tragedy and the lingering grief that has made her suicidal. Almost as if she's trying to mirror how alone she feels on the inside ...

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  22. Beulah Land (1980) / Blue and the Gray, the

    This miniseries double feature set drops the spotlight twice on the Cival War for tales of romance, hardships and more. Includes Beulah Land (Lesley Ann Warren,Michael Sarrazin. 1980/4 hrs..,27 min.) and The Blue and the Gray (Gregory Peck, Stacy Keach. 1979/4hrs.,22 min.)

  23. Beulah Land (TV Series 1980-1980)

    Lesley Ann Warren. Sarah Pennington (3 Episodes) Michael Sarrazin. Casey Troy (3 Episodes) Eddie Albert. Felix Kendrick (3 Episodes) Hope Lange. Deborah Kendrick (3 Episodes) Paul Rudd.