Directed by:
William WylerCinematography:
Robert SurteesComposer:
Elmer BernsteinCast:
Lee J. Cobb, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana, Lee Majors, Anthony Zerbe, Barbara Hershey, Yaphet Kotto, Chill Wills, Dub Taylor, Ray Teal, Arch Johnson (more)Plots(1)
L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes. Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine is a young lawyer who, shortly after marrying his sweetheart Nella, takes a position with a law firm in a small Southern town, run by his uncle Oman Hedgepath. L.B. Jones is a well-to-do African-American funeral director who comes to Hedgepath's firm in search of legal representation. Jones wishes to divorce his wife Emma, but his grounds make the case a hot potato - Jones has learned Emma has been having an affair with Willie Joe Worth, a white police officer who is the father of Emma's unborn child. Worth does not want his affair dragged into a court of law, so he and his fellow officer Stanley Bumpas violently take matters into their own hands. (Cinemax)
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