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Evans, editor of the Milton Chronicle from 1841 to 1883, created the Fool-Killer as an expression of his own style of folksy humor and social views. A Whig early in his career, Evans shifted to the Democratic Party in the 1850s. But he remained a progressive in politics, a booster of rail and plank roads, agricultural fairs, steamboat lines ...
Jesse Holmes is the Fool-Killer. Of course he is a myth, like Santa Claus and Jack Frost and General Prosperity and all those concrete conceptions that are supposed to represent an idea that Nature has failed to embody. The wisest of the Southrons can- not tell you whence comes the Fool-Killer's name; but few and happy are the households from ...
Adapted from a now-forgotten 1953 novel by Helen Eustis, this episodic story is set in the Deep South sometime during the late 1800’s. It starts out with 12-year-old George (Edward Albert) escaping from his abusive foster parents. He finds himself in the temporary care of an old hermit who relates the chilling tale of the Fool Killer, an ...
Blessing Angeline Fanshawe. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Frances Gaar. ... Old Crab (uncredited) Yvonne Gilbert. ... Janet (uncredited) Curtis Haymore.
The Fool Killer. After years of abuse from his foster parents, 12-year-old George Mellish (Edward Albert) runs away. Wandering the post--Civil War landscape of Tennessee, George is first taken in ...
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A night at a revival meeting, during which George is saved, ends in the preacher's murder- chopped with his own and Milo's disappearance. George goes on alone, to the Galts, and there he finds acceptance and forbearance, but there are his disconsolate memories of Milo- and the spectral terrors of the fool killer.
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