The Sound of a Stone (1955)
1955 · Ephemeral film · 26 min · dir. Herk Harvey
- Drama
Synopsis
The dramatized story of a young high school teacher who is falsely accused of communist sympathies is used to demonstrate how baseless accusations can foster the spread of suspicion throughout a community, thus causing insidious and lasting damage.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Herk Harvey
- Writer
- Margaret Travis
- Studio
- Centron Corporation
- Released
- 1955-07-01
- Running time
- 26 minutes
Cast & crew
Herk Harvey Director- Murray Nolte
- Twila Pollard
- Arden Booth
- Bette Booth
- David Horr
- Gene Courtney
Chuck Lacey
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · BOY WITH A LIMP · Spuzz · 2023-04-12
Amazing movie about how the rumor mill in one town can quickly spread, turning one couple's lives upside down. A high school teacher is accused of "teaching subversuve literature" to his students when one of the books he aska the kids to read (I still can't quite make out the title, despite it being repeated a few times) turns up on a subverive literature ist! Soon, a father who accuses the teacher of Communism gets the town all riled up, and the teacher's family is threatened. Soon his close firiends and compadres are also accused of behaviour, Including the son of the father who made the…
