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)
(more)Cast
Lee J. Cobb
USA
Best movies:
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Roscoe Lee Browne
USA
Best movies:
Spider-Man: Sins of the Fathers (1996)
The Connection (1961)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Lola Falana
USA
Best movies:
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
The Klansman (1974)
Lee Majors
USA
Best movies:
Steel (1979)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Do You Believe? (2015)
Anthony Zerbe
USA
Best movies:
Papillon (1973)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Barbara Hershey
USA
Best movies:
Falling Down (1993)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Yaphet Kotto
USA
Chill Wills
USA
Best movies:
The Yearling (1946)
Giant (1956)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Dub Taylor
USA
Best movies:
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Maverick (1994)
Ray Teal
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Arch Johnson
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Eve McVeagh
USA
Best movies:
The Graduate (1967)
Airport (1970)
High Noon (1952)
Larry D. Mann
Canada
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Brenda Sykes
USA
Best movies:
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Skin Game (1971)
Drum (1976)
Fayard Nicholas
USA
Best movies:
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
The Pirate (1948)
Zara Cully
USA
Best movies:
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
WUSA (1970)
Jack Grinnage
USA
Best movies:
Spartacus (1960)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)