The Klansman orThe Burning Cross

ESPN 30 for 30: June 17th 1994: The Ford Bronco chase with OJ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxqP1_MFPnc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEVU-SgbgQ&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ask.com%2Fweb%3Fq%3Dthe%2520klansman%26o%3D15527%26l%3Ddis%26prt%3D360%26chn%3Ds1122%26geo%3DUS%26ver%3D5&has_verified=1
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http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/the-burning-cross/
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Synopsis

A small southern town is on the brink of mayhem as the KLAN start to make trouble and race issues fire up the townspeople. The sheriff teams up with a local landowner and together they set out to deal with the KLAN on their own.

http://www.amazon.com/Burning-Cross-VHS-Lee-Marvin/dp/6301866460

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"THE KLANSMAN" WAS A DISASTER, June 1, 2002

By 

Larry R Matthews (Yuba City, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Klansman [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In the Spring of 1974 Director Terance Young and company came to Oroville, California to film the Klansman. The locals were excited to have a big studio film made in the small town. However, when it opened at the State Theatre in Oroville, there was widespread horror.

The film included a castration, an attempted rape and two rapes, plus a whole lot of racial comments and some god-awful acting. You would have thought that Richard Burton would have done well with his acting, but he was one of the worse. He was drunk and chasing an under-age girl for most of the shooting schedule and could not seem to handle the southern accent. (This may have been the incident that destroyed his and Liz Taylor's marriage.)

Lee Marvin, Cameron Mitchell, Lola Falana and a few others did well in their acting but the script shot them down. It was full of racial stereotypes that probably set back racial relations for the next 100 years. (This was OJ Simpson's first film.)

I was there in 1974 and saw a lot of the shooting of the movie. It's only redeeming value to me is the fact that it showed a lot of areas of Table Mountain, Cherokee, Oroville and Sugarloaf Mountain (75 miles north of Sacramento in Northern California).

The scenery is beautiful but the movie is awful.

There are many scenes that are unintentially funny because of the bad acting plus a hilarious scene where Richard Burton "slaps" Cameron Mitchell into a blood pulp. A Classic!

All in all a minor film but worth seeing if you want a laugh or two. Warning, the rape scene with Lola Falana is not for the faint of heart! Plus the castration scene makes ME grit my teeth!