Payday is a 1972 American drama film written by Don Carpenter, directed by Daryl Duke, and starring Rip Torn as a country music singer. Other members of the cast include Ahna Capri, Elayne Heilveil, and Michael C. Gwynne. The picture was filmed in and around Selma, Alabama.
Peter Schjeldahl of The New York Times called it “a brilliant, nasty little chrome-plated razor blade of a movie … a ‘road picture’ that is not, for once, a sentimental odyssey, but rather a clear-eyed study of people whose lives are linked to the road, how they behave and what becomes of them. Its clarity is what makes it so extraordinary. It is a work of such dead-honest realism that it is hard to know how, except as a kind of literal truth, to take it.” Arthur D. Murphy of Variety called it “a topnotch melodrama which explores incisively one of the dimmer aspects of the backstage pop music scene. Director Daryl Duke’s feature debut is outstanding.” Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote, “While backstage dramas are nothing new and we have been shown the sneer behind the starry grin often enough, in ‘A Face in the Crowd’ and elsewhere, ‘Payday’ explores the Nashville-centered world of country with an easy authenticity which makes this nothing like a repetition of what has been before.” The film was named one of The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made by The New York Times.
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