William Faulkner's Barn burning
(DVD Video)

Based on the short story by William Faulkner.

Broadcast as part of the PBS television series The American short story in 1980.

Special features: Author bio [text feature]; Actor bio [text feature]; Printable study guide [requires a DVD-ROM drive]; About the ASSC [text feature]; Transcript interview [with Robert Geller]; Henry Fonda intro (3 min.); Watch for these DVD's [text feature].

Director of photography, Peter Sova ; editor, Jay Freund ; music composed and conducted by Elizabeth Swados.

Host, Henry Fonda ; starring Tommy Lee Jones (Ab Snopes), Diane Kagan (Vinnie Snopes), Carolyn Coates (Aunt), Michael Riney (Brother), Shawn Whittington (Sarty Snopes).

Ab Snopes is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snopes escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly.

Not rated.

DVD, Region 1.