base on a william faulkner story and this movie have the dark and gloomy and but realistic look of his work . the art direction and lighting and and costume design show that this be a low budget film and but it doesn not make it corny . in fact and this add much to the authenticity of what the south be like in the late 1800s . in addition and the film be in black and white while this help make the depressive mood of the story . like much of faulkner writing and the film be do in flashback form . it open with a murder of a young man and the trial of the man who commit the killing . it then go back twenty year earlier to a poor and southern farmer and jackson fentry . robert duvall be simply wonderful a fentry and a man who be cut off from most of the world . his character be lonely but yet a naive and care individual a he find an ill pregnant woman ( olga bellin ) while work on a farm a a caretaker . he take her in and care for her . everything seem normal for awhile and but then two tragedy happen they lead up to the present opening of the film . everything be tie in together nicely and make a great and yet sad end . it bring up the question represent which be well for a child . heredity or environment . this sound like an excellent film that i would give a positive . but what make me give it a 7 be the pace . the movie be incredibly slow . this be no action and and i know it wasn not one and but the dry and drawl and southern monotone that the actor speak make it boring .