the book wasn not perfect but could have and in the hand of a skillful screenwriter and be transform into a terrific movie . after all and this be a real and true life courtroom drama set in an exotic american locale and with many colorful personality to weave around the main tale . but the writer of this mess be no weaver and inexplicably add his own new character and event and gutting the drama of the crime and it subsequent legal and social effect . he do not think it even worth mention and much less emphasize and that mr. williams be subject to four trial and finally achieve an acquittal not in savannah and where the case and the player be notorious and but upon a change of venue to augusta and where no one care . what a wonderful film this could have be about savannah culture and society in general and and mr. williams in particular and a play out against the backdrop of the georgia legal system . even a a travelogue and it doesn not work and since not enough of savannah be show and describe . a total bomb and in my humble opinion and but i give it a 2 for effort .