Some critics said thing's like the movie is sleazy and over the top. This is the most realistic film of showing the south of the 1950's to late 1960's. Everything that happened in this movie happened back than. Way more realistic than In The Heat Of The Night(not as good of course) L.B. Jones is Emmett Till, James Chaney, and many other black men from back than. A great movie imo, that show's the truth.
shareI wonder if this is the first movie showing a black man directly taking revenge?
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"I've always resisted the notion that knowledge ruined paradise." Prof. Xavier
To be honest I think I might like this a bit more than Heat, though it's been some years since I saw it. As great as Sidney Poitier and Rod Steigner was in that, this film hit me a lot harder.
My 105 favorite films - http://www.imdb.com/list/5pdE8_ZEh0Y/?publish=save
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I suspect that one reason why this film was not a box office hit was that many critics (and members of the general public) considered the subject matter "old". One critic said something like, if this film had been made 10 years earlier (before the Civil Rights Act, the race riots and the Assassination of MLK) then it would have had a greater social impact but by 1970, the issue had run its course. I suspect that many people, especially white people, thought that racial tensions had died down by 1970 and there were other battles to be fought. But as Charles Bronson famously said, "We don't make movies for critics because they don't pay to see them anyway".
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