Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

artpf A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. Assuming that the men in white sheets aren't intent on holding a fair and impartial trial, Garth takes to the woods as the Klansmen lynching party hunts him down.Exploitation flick with two big stars and a murderer. Filmed like a TV movie. The titles claim this was made in Technicolor, but the copy I saw had already faded to red, so it wasn't preserved in Technicolor. In fact, it was also rather blurry and I thin it was transferred from a video tape.Richard Burton allegedly drank so much alcohol during the making of this film that many of his scenes had to be shot with him seated or lying down, due to his inability to stand. In some scenes, he appears to slur his words or speak incoherently! Now that's worth the price of admission! When he's walking he looks like the Frankenstein monster! This is one of those movies that really needs to be seen to be appreciated. You will not be able to take your eyes off Burton. And OJ? Well let's just say he learned from this movie that knives are more quiet than guns.

merklekranz Despite the obvious political incorrectness, the movie bombs in many other ways. Parts of the script appear to have been written at various times, with absolutely no sense of scenes relating to each other. While Lee Marvin has played the gruff sheriff role enough times to walk through his lines, Richard Burton stumbles and bumbles between Southern and British accents throughout. O.J. Simpson hides in trees and snipes at anything in a white robe and hood. Linda Evans, Lola Falana, and Cameron Mitchell, round out the embarrassed looking cast. What you are left with are racial stereotypes on parade, in a truly forgettable film. - MERK

jpbarham I've witnessed movies about the American South that were awful and embarrassing, but this one goes overboard. Nothing or nobody in it is worth the one hour and 41 minutes of time it takes to suffer through this banal piece of junk. First off, here's poor Richard Burton limping about and trying to sound southern, but seems to have given this disguise up half-way through. Then Lee Marvin grunts and growls his one-dimensional sheriff's part with little conviction, so as to make O.J. Simpson's acting seem Olivier-like by comparison. That's right, Simpson's in it and playing the hero, no less. Rumor has it that Burton and Marvin were drunk during most of the filming. Shoot...they both had to be drunk when they first were handed the script.Seems the Burton character has drawn the wrath of the KKK by allowing poor blacks to live on his land rent-free, while taking in rape victims whose attackers were of the opposite race. They want him to leave town and, of course, he won't. So they come to burn him out. What needed burning is this stinker that sends the cause of good race relations back a century or two. I give "The Klansman" * 1/2 stars, with much credited to Johnny Walker.

winner55 What was director Young (Dr. No) thinking of taking on this project?! This is every bit as bad as I've heard. To begin with, there's the script, certainly among the worst ever written. Then there's the acting, very stereotypical of its day, except with the stars, Marvin and Burton, who clearly have no idea what they are doing here and don't really care. Then there's the anachronisms - the script belongs to the '60s, it's 5 years out of date. Then of course the morality - while the Klan is rightly to be condemned, can a black murderer be justified? Can he just be asked to leave the county as the sheriff does here? Ridiculous. And then there's the "action" climax - confusing and improbable.Was Young high when he did this? I can't think of any other excuse.Bad when not just awful.