miserable film . not even to be compare in one breath with to kill a mockingbird and or in the heat of the night . yes and there be racial prejudice but the film be at most ridiculous . come now . would you really have elizabeth patterson and of all people and guard a jail so a to avoid a lynching . patterson and in her day and play everyone mother and be the landlady in i love lucy before fred and ethel mertz buy the building . imagine exhume the body so that it will not come out that the black man gun kill a white man . claude jarman jr. and who be so fabulous in 1946 the yearling appear in this mess . he still have those sad eye . my eye would be sad too if i appear in this awful film . to me and this be nothing more than a faulkner flop all the way .