The gardener's son / executive producer Barbara Schultz ; producers, Michael Hausman and Richard Pearce ; director, Richard Pearce ; screenwriter, Cormac McCarthy.
Originally produced for public television broadcast. 1976, digitally re-mastered 2009. This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. Brad Dourif, Kevin Conway, Nan Martin, Jerry Hardin, Anne O'Sullivan, Penny Allen, Ned Beatty, Paul Benjamin.
Summary:
Based on a true story, the film takes place in the 1870's in a small South Carolina mill town founded and built by a pioneering industrialist whose son was shot and killed by a village youth. The youth was tried and hanged without ever giving an explanation for his deed. The film is a fictional attempt to use this actual murder case to explore what life was like in a factory village in the early years of the South's industrial revolution.
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