The Klansman Details

Well now. This early 70's oddity has featured so often on lists of the worst movies ever made that, well, curiosity just got the better of me. The poeple who have complied those lists over the years are not wrong. Part part of a lamentable catalogue that includes DRUM, MANDINGO and other exploitative cimematic excretia this makes CLEOPATRA JONES look like Bergman. A near catatonic Richard Burton slurrs through the poroceedings in a shambolic, embarassing performance that makes Lee Marvin's backwoods sheriff look like a monument of Traycian sublety. Technicaly inept and edited by idiots this ghastly mess turns out to be every second as bad as they say. Plot? Sort of. Think STRAW DOGS in bedsheets, but without the wit or insight. I suppose that now the two leads are long dead, the only extant folk who recall this with a shudder will be Linda KRYSTAL CARRINGTON Evans and the shameless OJ Simpson. Both of whom should have known better

Klansman, Shamsman!

The first drawback of this movie is the quality; unfortunately, the print is very bad. The second drawback is the ludicrous, Spike Lee-esque soundtrack. The third drawback is the strange editing. Was really hoping to find a gem, with Lee Marvin & Richard Burton at their best, but sad to say I didn't. The positive is the story is sound, and the realism of the plot is good.