 Max Baer Jr. (who also wrote and produced) plays a vengeful Southern sheriff who is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters (Alan and Jesse Vint). Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1954 and based on fact, it was a surprise box-office smash. Followed by a 1975 sequel: "Return to Macon County" with Nick Nolte and Don Johnson.