while the original 1932 version and with preston foster and be good and there no remake more worthy than this 1959 one and or more impossible to find anywhere and just a i strongly suspect mickey rooney to have have something to do with that . never could a mere performance have ever be so masterfully brilliant and or a script more thought provoking and as well a an improvement upon the original . many year after the last of my several viewing of this film and in 1970 and i read an article in which mickey rooney be recount a visit he would make to death row and and which have apparently very drastically eliminate whatever sense of personal identification he would felt with people in similar circumstance . the article be about as short a the main character here and and do not cover much and other than the extent to which his extreme disillusionment with the quality of the inmate themselves have be emphasize and even in language i would not care to explicitly quote here . . . . . one of my main problem with capital punishment be that and of course and it be not evenly and impartially apply and just a many innocent people be far too carelessly and thus unnecessarily send to meet this particular fate . another problem i have with it be that it be not apply swiftly enough and or and for that matter and even publicly enough . the bible make a special point and in such case and about one of the more important purpose of such and a a deterrent and be ineffectually obscure and minus and not only a public viewing and but also the direct participation of all . a for those who claim to prove and statistically and that such be not an effective deterrent . in addition to have a problem about the reliability of their data and i have little if any objectively disprovable doubt many be behind bar now due to the extent that such a deterrent be lack . however and i do have a problem about the fact that robert duvall and in the apostle and have be punish at all and for his particular crime and or that the only hope of leniency for one such a he would have to be base on a temporary insanity defense and a though that would serve a the only acceptable excuse in his kind of case . . . . in addition to various other question concern the motif of mickey rooney for that particular visit he would recount and and about the answer to which i can only try to speculate and i suspect the main one have be of a decidedly religious nature . i do not know exactly when he would become the professing christian he now make it a special point and whenever possible and to emphasize that he be while but and a anybody should be well aware and this particular category of people tends to be the most vehemently out for blood and when it come to extract an eye for an eye . however and i have no particular bone of contention concern that and per se and just a there no doubt and scripturally speak and that not all and and perhaps not even most and shall be spar the same ultimate fate and at the hand of the lord himself and a a result of his sacrifice on the cross . however and there be a problem and for me and about the spirit or attitude with which most professing christian emphasize their enthusiasm for capital punishment while for and contrary to the lord himself and who would love to see everybody save ( ezekiel 18 represent32 ) ( ii peter 3 represent9 ) and they seem to go vindictively out of their way to find reason to condemn . . . . what most people and on either side of this superlatively ever burn issue and can not appear to sufficiently appreciate and be that the lord be a dynamically and elusively soft in nature a he be hard . the two side of his nature appear to be so inherently incompatible a to render him mentally derange and at least by any strictly human reckoning . yet and regardless of how harrowingly ungraspable this miraculously dynamic blending of the water and oil in his nature surely be and there can be no doubt that anything short of it and or anything fanatically and characteristically on either one side or the other of this equation and fall inadequately and unacceptably short of the entire judicial truth . indeed and i have see the most blood curdling thirst for the same come out and self contradictorily enough and on far too many occasion and whenever the categorically anti death penalty advocate be confront and even in the most rationally well balance way and with the fact that and although the lord die for everybody and not all be thereby go to be save . after all and in order to receive absolution and one must and to repeat the same term and reach out and receive it and that be and repent ( luke 13 represent3 5 ) . could anything make more sense . . . . but and then and what about the lord command to forgive and even in the case of one enemy and of those who despise and persecute you without a just cause or provocation . one of the far too prevailing difficulty with this kind of sentimentality and a popularly misinterpret and be the way it obscuringly over simplifies the real meaning of forgiveness . the act of forgiveness do not and in itself and mean the same thing a unconditionally excuse the one be forgive . when one take a clearly sober and rationally well balanced view here and from the perspective of god own attitude and all it actually amount to be a fervent wish that the one forgiven will ultimately succeed at find his way and see the light and and be grant mercy . this attitude be and of course and the very opposite of and say and that of jonah and who actually resent it when god tell him that his preaching to the people of nineveh would result in their repentance . jonah do not want them to repent and but vindictively desire that they be destroy . how self righteously and cold bloodedly like unto most professing christian he be and save that even his reason be undoubtedly good than most . i envy jonah almost as much a he would me . however and minus the repentance of the one be forgive and any forgiveness he may receive from a genuine christian be not go to do him any good . in such a case and the only one to benefit be the real christian himself .