TIME OF THE HEATHEN (1961) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Peter Kass
John Heffernan, Stewart Heller, Barry Collins,
Orville Stewart, Ethel Ayler, Nathaniel White
In a remote rural area, presumably in the South, a black woman is raped and murdered. The most convenient suspect, guilty or not, is a drifter passing through on foot, wearing a black suit and carrying a Bible in his pocket. He and a mute young boy - the dead woman's son - are also potential witnesses, and a couple of rednecks armed with rifles give them a running start and then start hunting them down. A gothic nightmare shot cheaply in black and white, played with unsettling conviction by a no-name cast. It's like George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", but without the zombies - not as gruesome and just as creepy.
