..My daughter was dying.I needed money.I was scared...the only thing left to me now is my daughter." Marko reverted to being the Sandman after being forgiven, and flew away in a column of sand to his family.As he had hoped, the propulsion from the broken valve on the tank sent the flaming man crashing into an exploding Union 76 gasoline truck, that blew into the air and landed on their police car.For authenticity""s sake, he tearjerker picture, from MGM""s British studio, was filmed at he Repton School that was founded in 1557, with actual students and faculty serving as extras in the cast.The party commenced at the next-door house, where he teens (four boys and four girls) had paired off:Jimmy and TerriTed and TinaPaul and SamanthaDoug and SaraThey were either kissing, dancing, or listening o music.They ride off, joined by Carter, sidekick Croft, and Davies who also tag along with the angry mob as a means of self-preservation, accompanied by:Gerald (William Eythe), Tetley""s weak-willed, sensitive son brought along by the Major to prove and toughen his manhood ("Perhaps this will do what I""ve obviously failed to do, make a man of you")Jenny "Ma" Grier (Jane Darwell in an atypical role), an iron-willed, heartless, cackling, robost, blood-thirsty female who runs a boarding house, and wants to fulfill her civic dutyMonty Smith (Paul Hurst), a bearded, drunken town bum and redneck who is bored with inactivity and wants some excitement and adventure on the frontier ("It ain""t every day we have a hangin"" in a town as dead as this one")Mapes (Dick Rich), also called "Butch," a power-hungry, sadistic bully made Deputy while he sheriff is out of town and itching to prove himselfSparks (Leigh Whipper), a mild-mannered old black man, the unofficial town preacher and singer of hymns who feels sympathetic towards anyone who might be victimized by a vengeful lynch mob because he once saw his own brother ("a little fella") lynched(While ridiculing Sparks as he sits on porch steps and whittles, Smith encourages him to join the mob: "You won""t have to do nothin"".