Directed by Ralph Nelson
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Jim Brown and George Kennedy star in this dramatization of race relations in the South during the turbulent late 60s. Brown is the newly elected black sheriff and Kennedy the outgoing white one in a typical racist southern town. The whites hang out in their redneck country bar while the blacks hang out in their own, and they both hate each other. A road accident results in the death of a little girl and the arrest of the drunk white man who killed her. The good ole boys from the next county want to break him out of jail, but can the blacks and whites come together to stop them? The soundtrack is completely out of place and intrusive, but apparently the TCM print is not the original soundtrack. One film in desperate need of restoration and rediscovery.
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