It’s the Klan and hippies and all sorts of pain for the audience as Richard Burton (!), O.J., and Cameron Mitchell as “Butt Cut” join Lee “I swear I only did it for the paycheck” Marvin as The Klansman.
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#1 by JessicaR on May 31, 2009 - 11:36 am
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I think I will have to see this, because I’m a sucker for “Apallingly Terrible Southern Accent Theatre”, I have seen Reflections in a Golden Eye so it’s time to add another to the list.
#2 by lyzard on May 31, 2009 - 3:47 pm
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Ah, the last day of a Roundtable month – the happiest place on earth!
#3 by lyzard on May 31, 2009 - 4:54 pm
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Apparently, The Klansman was released on DVD uncut in Denmark (!?). Should I keep an eye out in my grey-market wanderings, or have you had enough?
By the way, I have an idea that the whole British actor thing is because people from California think English accents and Southern ones are interchangeable. (They think that of Australian and South African accents, too. And Cockney.)
#4 by El Santo on May 31, 2009 - 7:00 pm
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And it suddenly dawns on me that I have absolutely no idea what a South African accent might sound like…
#5 by lyzard on May 31, 2009 - 7:14 pm
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Broadly speaking, it can be compared to a New Zealand accent: not that they sound alike, but they are both distinguished by very particular and distinct vowel sounds. Whereas the Australian accent is the result of us being the world’s laziest speakers. (Or as I once instructed someone attempting one, speak quickly, slur all your words together, don’t sound your hard consonents properly, speak through your nose, and abbreviate everything.)
#6 by Ed on May 31, 2009 - 10:54 pm
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Can’t say I’d blame Marvin and Burton for being drunk during the shoot. If I had that script to work with I’d be juiced to the gills from the first day of shooting to the release date.
#7 by Ken Begg on June 1, 2009 - 7:55 am
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Lyz–Thanks for the offer, but reader and veteran correspondent Sandra reports that the unedited version of the film includes what sounds like an even more appalling than usual rape scene, vis a vis the scene of Loretta and Butt in the warehouse. Eee-yuck. No thankee.
#8 by lyzard on June 1, 2009 - 11:39 pm
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Yes, I admit as I was reading your review, I was thinking, “Hmm…rape scene…rape scene…dog killing…” and adding up the minutes. Very sensible of you to opt out. (Of course, if it was me, I’d track down the uncut print anyway, suffer through it, and then make everyone else suffer by complaining about it! 🙂 )
#9 by Ken Begg on June 2, 2009 - 6:40 am
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Additional eyewitness testimony is in, and it sounds like there were *two* longer rape scenes–Nancy Poteet’s presumably being the other–plus a castration (!). Odd that all these years I avoided posting the review for fear of being unjustifiably critical of it, whereas apparently the full version seems to have rather been far more reprehensable than I had imagined.
#10 by The Mud Puppy on June 2, 2009 - 8:53 am
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El Santo, another way to tell a South African accent is that it’s rather nasally.
So I guess imagine a Kiwi with a head cold and you’ve got the basic idea.
#11 by Krillion on October 22, 2026 - 11:16 pm
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The bit about O.J. Simpson and the white SUV is a genuinely strange historical echo to stumble on in a 1974 Klan drama cast list, and Richard Burton and Lee Marvin both clearly treating it as a paycheck gig says a lot about how these ensemble exploitation films got made. I tend to break up stretches of reading about this era of B-movies with something lighter, and krillion.me has been that kind of quick party word game distraction lately.
#12 by Mimic Party on October 23, 2026 - 5:41 am
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Casting Richard Burton opposite O.J. Simpson and Cameron Mitchell in the same film is the kind of collision that only a paycheck-era production could produce, and “Butt Cut” as a character name suggests the script knew exactly what it was. Lee Marvin’s open disdain for the material probably reads as the most honest performance in the thing. When I need a palate cleanser after that kind of cinematic trainwreck, a round of the bluffing game at mimicparty.me makes for a decent break.
#13 by Noillirk on October 23, 2026 - 5:58 am
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Casting Richard Burton and O.J. Simpson in the same film is the kind of pairing that sounds like a fever dream until you remember it’s a real movie with Lee Marvin collecting a paycheck. The white SUV detail is a dark coincidence that the review wisely lets speak for itself. I tend to decompress from grim cinema with something lighter, like the daily word puzzle at noillirk.app.