Roger Corman directs William Shatner, Frank Maxwell and Beverly Lunsford in this independent drama where a charismatic and malicious outsider rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but soon finds himself in a situation that even he cannot control.

Filmed very much like a Twilight Zone / Outer Limits episode only nothing out of reality happens. Shatner puts in a surprisingly complex performance as the handsome yet hubristic shit stirrer. There is no twist… the good men who stand up against the mob are beaten down easily and the town only needs one simple nudge to give in to their base prejudices. Feels very much like an antidote to the adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. A lone white man can’t save you but one certainly can make a bad situation far worse.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Chase (1966)

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