Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith are outstanding as the representatives, respectively, of good and evil. In my opinion, this movie contains the best acting of their careers. The accountrements of the late 1940s--automobiles, dress, and architecture--give the film a fine period feel. (The only mistake I could see was a Georgia state flag bearing the Confederate battle cross, seven years too early.) An added treat was June Carter Cash, Johnny's wife, playing a country conjurer who reads people's fortunes and communes with the dead, including her brother, who was killed in World War I. When Johnny Cash learns of her deceased brother and expressed his condolences, she tells him, "It's alright, we still talk "
Review of Murder in Coweta County
