Thanks. Sounds as though Lee should have used his sissors more, but if he had, then the film would not have received all the laurels.
I think he larded up what might have been a more interesting story with a lot of heavy-handed propagandizing. Even so, I doubt the original story from the novelist, which I have not read, had the makings of a great movie. More to the point, I don't think the subject would have mass appeal.