If you want rain and there ain't no rain, has it ever occurred to you why you haven't tried to hang God?
A Town Has Turned to Dust, directed by John Frankenheimer and written by Rod Serling. CBS forced Serling into extensive, heavy-handed edits that show on the screen--scenes sometimes don't quite connect one to the next, or rely on details only perfunctorily mentioned--to wipe away its evocation of the lynching of Emmett Till, but Serling and Frankheimer still managed to put something powerful on the air. Impish in one moment and violent in the next, Shatner's Jerry Paul is terrifying as he spearheads the lynching of a Mexican boy; his afterparty is even more nightmarish.