Sorry, I know the first film and book pretty well. With certain exceptions - Mattie doesn’t lose her arm - the original movie is very close to the novel. Not at all a “Hollywood evisceration.” And when you have Strother Martin, Jeff Corey and Robert Duvall back you up, who gives a damn what is changed?
did you see the remake?
for a few pennies to netflix, if I have the time, I will chance it.
You forgot Dennis Hopper...
he died good.
(btw Bob Duval was excellent....Jeff Corey perfomance was yeomanlike...and creepy little John Fielder as Lawyer Dagget was....well he played creepy little John Fielder....loved him as Jack the Ripper on a Star Trek episode....)