The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain

VHS, 40 min., 1980

Hadleyburg is just about the most honest town there is. Townspeople are proud of their virtue of being unfriendly to strangers and staying honest by simply avoiding temptation. Or do they? Infused with the characteristic cynicism of his later work, Twain’s tale is a dark vision of the xenophobia and hypocrisy he saw in small town America.