Check out this amazingly prescient movie by Elia Kazan featuring an astonishing performance by Andy Griffith. It stuns me that he went from breathing life into this monster to having his own mainstream tv show just a year later. Then everyone immediately forgot the movie. Until now…
This post needs more Lee Remick!
I agree!
Apparently Kazan gave Griffith, a complete novice in front of a movie camera, some amazing direction for this scene. He said to him, “Everything you think comes out of your eyes and is recorded by the camera. I want you to think ‘f*ck her’.”