this film be set and film and and premier in oxford and miss . and the hometown of w. faulkner and the locale of the 1948 book . most of the extra be local . i have be to oxford and and it have greatly change . this film feature will geer a the sheriff while he be later blacklist . it be the writer and actor of social drama such a this film and and grape of wrath and that be target of the huac a few year later . i do not recall if the actor play the young mallison boy ( claude jarman jr ) do anything after the tv series centennial ( 1978 ) and but he be terrific in this early film . and do not miss elizabeth patterson who later play in little woman .