William Shatner gets off the bus in the small southern town and rents a room at the hotel. He's open and friendly, and talks to just about all the people downtown, all of whom are White, and isn't it terrible that they're integrating the schools. Soon he's holding mass open meetings in which he talks about facts and how integration will mongrelize the country, which is just what the communists want. They're funding it through a Jewish front, and he has proof.....
With a screenplay by Charles Beaumont from his own novel, Roger Corman tries his hand at making a socially conscious film about racial hatred. It's almost a spell-binding effort by William Shatner. It was also a very rare flop by Corman, and he blamed Shatner for it; on one reissue, it was retitled I HATE YOUR GUTS
There's a Rodgers & Hammerstein song from SOUTH PACIFIC that insists "you have to be taught to hate and fear." That's not true. We hate and fear the strange, the different, the other. It's not an intruder that makes us hate other people. It doesn't have to be drummed in our dear little ear. We do it because we don't understand it and therefore it might be a threat. And until we come to accept that this meanness, this anger, this hatred isn't an intruder, it's us talking to ourselves, then we can't do a darned thing about it.
With a screenplay by Charles Beaumont from his own novel, Roger Corman tries his hand at making a socially conscious film about racial hatred. It's almost a spell-binding effort by William Shatner. It was also a very rare flop by Corman, and he blamed Shatner for it; on one reissue, it was retitled I HATE YOUR GUTS
There's a Rodgers & Hammerstein song from SOUTH PACIFIC that insists "you have to be taught to hate and fear." That's not true. We hate and fear the strange, the different, the other. It's not an intruder that makes us hate other people. It doesn't have to be drummed in our dear little ear. We do it because we don't understand it and therefore it might be a threat. And until we come to accept that this meanness, this anger, this hatred isn't an intruder, it's us talking to ourselves, then we can't do a darned thing about it.