Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Good concept, poorly executed.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

If nothing else, Terence Young's The Klansman has you feeling persistently outraged and repulsed, which seems like the broadly right reaction to a drama about modern-day Southern racism. It's generally a bit unclear to what extent this reflects conscious sociological engagement and illumination, versus tasteless pot-boiling, but the ambiguity isn't uninteresting in itself. It's tempting to credit co-writer Samuel Fuller for what's most interesting in the film - usually when it looks beyond the rather ploddingly ugly foreground drama to explore the wretchedly symbiotic coexistence between white fear of blackness and its economic dependence on it. There's an acknowledgement for instance of how the black population in the county actually outnumbers the white, thus providing constant fuel for voter intimidation mechanisms, and the film is pretty good on how the Klan bastardizes language and religious precepts (in these regards as in numerous others, the film's substance feels less dated than its surface). The plot turns around sheriff Bascomb's attempts to maintain equilibrium in the community when various events, including a white woman's rape and a voting rights demonstration, stir up the perpetually stir-ready Klansmen (that is, basically, the entire local male population) - his concessions are monstrously favourable to the racists who occupy the driver's seat, but of course it's never enough. The film surely spends too much time wallowing in swaggering interactions, and it's hard to look kindly at its relative treatment of white and black female sexuality and its violation - it lacks anything as cinematically or thematically powerful as the central concept of Fuller's later White Dog. Unless that is you react a certain way to the presence of O. J. Simpson as a one-man avenger, essentially occupying his own space within the movie, just as he does in the movie of our lives. Young's film fails particularly in its ending, delivering us merely to inevitable mass violence and destruction, and to a predictably bitter closure lacking in any broader meaning or implication.

It's odd to think that Burton was still in his 40s when he made this movie; a piece of sleazy 'social awareness', arguably in the vein of the Eurothrillers, THE KLANSMAN boasts a cast numbering Burton, Marvin, Mitchell, Lola Falana, Luciana Paluzzi, Mrs. Evans …. And Young at the helm …--after a few movies with Bronson ….So call it _blaxploitation if you wish …--it's nonetheless _blaxploitation directed by Young (the 'James Bond' director) and performed by Burton and Luciana Paluzzi among others ….Luciana Paluzzi was a Bond actress (playing Fiona Volpe); she was also one of the Femmine _insaziabili .

Infamous film starring Richard Burton and Lee Marvin about the rape of a white woman in small southern town. Its decided that the person responsible is a black man played by OJ Simpson. They go after him with an unbridled zeal while Richard Burton (with a bum leg that comes and goes depending upon the shot) and Lee Marvin try to keep the peace. This film came to my attention in one of the Medved's worst film anthologies. I don't know if I would consider it a worst film of all time, however I will say that its one of the most wrong headed. Its the sort of message movie that Hollywood did in the 1960's and which deteriorated quickly into movie of the week on TV. This is a movie of the week with an "A" movie cast. I think this might have worked but the cast doesn't work on any level. Its often as simply as the wrong casting of Welshman Richard Burton as a Southerner. At other times its incredibly silly as it tries to sell us on the evils of racism with David Huddleston as the Mayor of the town and lead Klansman a role that he played for laughs as Olson Johnson in Blazing Saddles the same year (and elsewhere any other times). I admire the film trying to take on an evil straight on but its just all wrong. Its a turkey, yes but not one of the worst films of all time.

Putrid, slow-moving, incompetent flick about fictional Klan activity in polarized rural Alabama. The community is in a time warp in which people haven't figured out that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 isn't in effect. Hello, there! All of the characters have nearly no redeeming value and are cardboard stereotypes, so it's easy to understand why the Klan can be active in such a miserable place.One star out of ten for this mess, and only because I can't give worse.