The Sound of a Stone

When a father discovers that his son's high school teacher has assigned a book on a list of subversive literature, he stirs up the whole town against the teacher. But the fear of su subversion doesn't stop with the teacher.

Centron Films produced this film for the Methodist Church in the middle of the Red Scar of the 1950s. Even though Senator McCarthy had been humiliated, the country was still filled with people who thought that anyone who read anything that someone considered leftist was in danger of becoming a wild-eyed communist. Just as later writing about alternative sexuality filled people with the dread that their son or daughter would change their sexuality. It's as if they think being good is dull and being evil is fun.