The civil rights movement is coming to Atoka County and the white residents don't like it they're prepared to commit assaults rape or murder to get their point across. In the middle of this powder keg County Sheriff Bascomb (Lee Marvin) endeavors to keep the peace as best he can together with Mayor Hardy who is the owner of the local lumber company and the bank on which most of the residents depend. Mayor Hardy employs most of the county and he wants a stable environment for business which includes keeping enough poor blacks around to do the most menial work... for menial pay. After Nancy Poteet (Linda Evans) is apparently raped by a black man all hell breaks loose. Butt Cutt Cates (Cameron Mitchell) a loud mouth hardcore Klansman is arrested for raping a black woman prisoner while his sworn enemy Garth (O.J. Simpson) a young black man who witnesses a Klan murder gets a rifle and starts dishing out justice of his own. Before it's over the major part of the county is at war and bodies are falling everywhere. [show more]
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Interracial strife hits Atoka County, Alabama in Director Terence Young's tense thriller. When local white woman Nancy Poteet (Linda Evans) is raped one night, apparently by a black man, the subsequent murder of a black teenager threatens to undermine the fragile balancing act of local County Sheriff 'Big Track' Bascomb (Lee Marvin). Undermined by his Klan-supporting deputy (Cameron Mitchell) and local employer/Mayor, Hardy Riddle (David Huddlestone), Bascomb tries to keep the lid on the powder-keg of a potential race-war.
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