One of Nobel Prize-winner William Faulkner's favorite characters, Yoknapatawpha County attorney Gavin Stevens, is front and center in this crime story, taken from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (June 1946, where it won second prize in EQMM's annual contest) and then reprinted in Knight's Gambit (1949).
Edmond O'Brien plays Joel flint, a carnival huckster who inserts himself with farmer Pritchel (Lon Chaney, Jr.) and his young daughter M'Liss (Margaret Field -- mother of Sally). M'Loss falls for flint, marries him, and soon is dead. Douglas Kennedy plays the detecting Uncle Gavin Stevens. The cast also includes child actor and dragster racer Tommy Ivo, prolific character actor James Bell (he played Hugh Lynn Cayce in The Search for Bridey Murphy). the ever ubiquitous William Schallert (388 IMDb credits), and Dan White (who has 294 credits on IMDb, including Touch of Evil, Jailhouse Rock, Attack of the Giant Leeches, and Corky and White Shadow). William Lundigan was the show's host.
This episode was adapted by David Dontort from Faulkner's story. William H. Brown Jr. directed.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbXm2NklRaY&list=PLTKmp3L0wn-UpS3Gnj1hdk-oOCLRUkIzu&index=1
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