Then only long enough to marry that kid""s mother and get run out of the place by her folks...Why do you suppose he""s livin"" in this neck of the woods if he didn""t have something to hide."]Davies begs for a promise of fairness: "Major Tetley, you mustn""t let this be a lynching...Promise me you""ll bring ""em in for a fair trial...Tetley, you bring those men in alive." But here are no promises ("I promise I""ll abide by the majority will"), and the twenty-eight men are illegally deputized (to duly take the law into their own hands) by the insolent Mapes, the deputy sheriff, against the Judge""s orders.It shows we""re awake and not dunking our heads in the sand like a bunch of ostriches.I want this picture to be a commentary on modern conditions, stark realism, the problems that confront the average man."The neck""s broken; the brain is useless.We must find another brain," laments Frankenstein - not surprising since the manwasthe victim of a hanging.It was controversial for a number of offending scenes and plotlines hat were edited out of the film""s original release of US prints, at the behest of the Catholic Legion of Decency.