Miserable film. Not even to be compared in one breath with "To Kill a Mockingbird," or "In the Heat of the Night."
Yes, there is racial prejudice but the film is at most ridiculous.
Come now. Would you really have Elizabeth Patterson, of all people, guarding a jail so as to avoid a lynching? Patterson, in her day, played everyone's mother and was the landlady in "I Love Lucy" before Fred and Ethel Mertz bought the building.
Imagine exhuming the body so that it will not come out that the black man's gun killed a white man?
Claude Jarman Jr., who was so fabulous in 1946's "The Yearling" appears in this mess. He still had those sad eyes. My eyes would be sad too if I appeared in this awful film.
To me, this was nothing more than a Faulkner flop all the way.
Yes, there is racial prejudice but the film is at most ridiculous.
Come now. Would you really have Elizabeth Patterson, of all people, guarding a jail so as to avoid a lynching? Patterson, in her day, played everyone's mother and was the landlady in "I Love Lucy" before Fred and Ethel Mertz bought the building.
Imagine exhuming the body so that it will not come out that the black man's gun killed a white man?
Claude Jarman Jr., who was so fabulous in 1946's "The Yearling" appears in this mess. He still had those sad eyes. My eyes would be sad too if I appeared in this awful film.
To me, this was nothing more than a Faulkner flop all the way.