Free hint: if this scene (illegal firing squad after a kangaroo court, to be precise) is in your movie, and it’s being done by the “good guys,” then they are not actually the good guys. Those are the people that you should be fighting.
Background here. And dear God.
And somehow the Examiner piece misses the craziest thing of all — that FDR did a stint as (uncredited) script doctor on the flick.
Which, by the way, works SO WELL if you just decide that the characters are *eversoslightly* wrong, and President Hammond is possessed by a member of the Great Race of Yith.
What? Of course I’ve seen it.
…Dammit, Ken, now I have to go watch it now. It’d be stealing the shtick of Laws’ take on Repairer of Reputations, but that might make for a heck of a campaign.