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National Film Preservation Board | 2019
In the film, John Patterson (Richard Kiley) is depicted as supportive of African-American Zeke Ward (James Edwards) and his family. In real life, following his term as Alabama attorney general (1954-58), Patterson ran for governor in 1958 in an openly racist campaign and won. One of his opponents, George Wallace, had run as a racial moderate and told his friends after the election, "John Patterson out-niggered me, and I'm never gonna be out-niggered again." Four years later, in 1962, Wallace won the governorship of Alabama as an avowed segregationist.
The film went into production so quickly that some of the criminals it was portraying were standing trial while filming was taking place.
The scene where the little black child was murdered and thrown onto the Patterson's lawn never occurred. It was added for dramatic effect.
This is one of Martin Scorsese's personal favorite films.
Such was director Phil Karlson's attention to detail that he had some of his actors wear the actual clothes of their screen counterparts.
"Albert L. Patterson: Rhett, I'm not stickin' my neck out. Why should I? Phenix City has been what it is for 80, 90 years. Who am I to try to reform it?"
"Rhett Tanner: [Looking at a bowl of turtles painted with numbers] You know, there ought to be a way to make a lot of money with these little turtles. Cassie: Hunh? Rhett Tanner: Yeah, havin' them in a turtle race, you know. If I could just figure out a way to fix the winner."
