Cinema: God's Littered Acre

THE KLANSMAN

Directed by TERENCE YOUNG Screenplay by MILLARD KAUFMAN and SAMUEL FULLER

Dark doings down South. For one thing, quite a few women in the small town of Ellen ton, Ala., are susceptible to rape. When the Ellenton citizens are not raping, they are running straight through the whole bloody catalogue of violence—punch-outs, castrations and murders. Ellenton is so thoroughly rotten that not even the Jaycees come out of hiding.

Only Sheriff Big Track Bascomb (Lee Marvin) has the gumption to stick his head out the window—generally the one on the side of...