Pat Buttram plays a hillbilly, down and outer, who is married to a cute but really dumb girl who wantonly cheats on him. He goes to a carnival on day and uses the twelve dollars he has left in his pocket to buy a jar, filled with liquid and containing a collection of strange things. It seems that anyone who looks at the thing is affected by it. Some get angry. Some get sad. Some act out violently. The great thing about this is the cast. In addition to Buttram, we have Slim Pickens as the sheriff. We have Jane Darwell who starred in The Grapes of Wrath. A major role involves George Lindsay, Goober Pyle from the old Andy Griffith Show. The events surrounding this object leads to angst and death and jealousy. Excellent acting. Excellent setting for a horror story.
