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Sheriff Tawes (Gregory Peck) is a righteous, brooding Tennessean overtaken by the sterility of his existence. His unattractive daughter asks him inane riddles at the supper table, his wife (Estelle Parsons) quotes marriage advice from the Reader's Digest and his senile father jabbers from the porch swing. When the sheriff questions a young mountain girl named Alma McCain (Tuesday Weld) about a traffic violation, he sees her as a chance-perhaps his last -for freedom, rebellion, sexual gratification, maybe even love. Alma's father (Ralph Meeker) sees a chance for something too: protection for his illegal moonshine...
...that the love affair between Alma and the sheriff lacks the qualities of desperation and frustration that would make it convincing. Alvin Sargent's script does not help matters much with such ritual movie Southernisms as "Eat your beans, Grandpa" and "Would you like a Dr Pepper?" Peck succeeds in conveying the sheriff's vulnerability but never his passion...
Yesterday Seth "Dr. E." Many and Carolyn "Whammo" Peck of the Lewd Commune went to Middlesex County Superior Court to appeal their conviction for "open and gross lewdness," which carries a possible sentence of 30 days to three years. The judge took their motion under advisement...
...Many and Peck contend that the law in question is unconstitutional, because it represents an establishment of religion, threatens the privacy of peaceful citizens, and deprives them of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...defendants were accompanied by 60 friends of the Commune. When the court bailiffs tried to keep the group out of the courtroom. Peck and Many, acting as their own lawyers, demanded an open trial. After some dispute the to fight back to protect ourselves." "witnesses...