While Anthony Perkins' character is clenching his paranoid fists in disgust.....young Edward Albert's cry-baby character succumbs to mass hysteria.....

Shades of Elmer Gantry, a film adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel.... with similar themes, made five years before........In this manic scene from the largely unseen and underappreciated Film, THE FOOL KILLER, we are shown how impressionable youths....and ignorant, guilt-ridden provencials....are seduced and traduced  by dogmatic religion-obsessed propagandists......'same as it ever was'......terrified of their God's eternal punishment for straying from the strict road of seemingly eternal re-establishments of consensual conformity....   All of the Characters in this Servando Gonzalez movie are emotional 'basket cases', due to their childhood conditioning.....and the twelve year old orphan, George Mellish...played by Albert, who...I must declare "should have won an oscar for his performance....as well as the actor, Henry Hull, whom I admired in another forgotten film, made 3 decades earlier, WEREWOLF OF PARIS".     I could go on and on and on about this Film, although its contemporary critics seemed to have ignored it until recently, when it was resurrected in a new print, and shown on TCM......How about another round of applause for Anthony Perkins, singing 'Moonlight Swim' or 'If You can find me, I'm here'.....on the shirt tales of Tab Hunter's 'Young Love'.    Isn't it time to 'bury the hatchet', Movie Viewers?   You may keep yours, Mona Malnorowski.  You're not very likely to arouse repressed sexuality......