Vengeance Is Mine

Year Published: 1971

Creator: 3558 S Jefferson

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows Les Merrill, a young black man, released from prison after spending three years for a crime he did not commit. Pictures him returning to the ghetto neighborhood in which he spent his boyhood, determined to find who framed him and seek vengeance. Presents his girl friend, Edith, trying to convince Les that vengeance belongs to God, and that Christians have faith that evil must be overcome with good. , A story of class prejudice. A well-to-do good citizen fights, on the basis of segregation, against the erection of a much-needed housing project near his home. His prejudice against his neighbors is relentless until he is forcibly shown the error of his actions by the events that effect the lives of his own family

Complete Record: Shows Les Merrill, a young black man, released from prison after spending three years for a crime he did not commit. Pictures him returning to the ghetto neighborhood in which he spent his boyhood, determined to find who framed him and seek vengeance. Presents his girl friend, Edith, trying to convince Les that vengeance belongs to God, and that Christians have faith that evil must be overcome with good. , A story about a man who is released from prison and seeks vengeance on those who framed him. Describes his girl friend's attempts to convince him that vengeance belongs to God and that Christians believe that evil must be overcome with goodNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.