As much as I like "The Sound and the Fury" (alternate title "Try and Get Me"), there is a certain disconnect in the film.

The script is adapted from a Depression Era novel by Jo Pagnano based upon a notorious kidnapping case that resulted in a lynching. The production did not permit the movie to be filmed as a period piece, so contemporary vehicles and settings were used -- much like the King Brothers using late model cars in "Dillinger" where the historical action actually took place a full decade earlier in the 1930s.

Frank Lovejoy and Kathleeen Ryan struggle to make ends meet in a household where money is so tight that their family cannot spare loose change. The American economy enjoyed a Postwar boom in the 1940s, so the widespread poverty and unemployment depicted in the film seems a trifle odd. At one point, Lovejoy complains about being charged an additional five cents for a more expensive brand of beer that he did not ask for.

Nonetheless, it is a damned fine movie if you can suspended your disbelief.

Quite a few Depression Era novels were revised and produced a few years later as film noir movies.