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A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker 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. Written by Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night (1967)). Director William Wylers final film.
L.B. Jones is a well-to-do African-American funeral director who comes to Oman Hedgepaths firm in search of legal representation. Jones wishes to divorce his young wife Emma, but his grounds make the case hot news. Jones has learned Emma has been having an affair with Willie Joe Worth, a white police officer who is the father of Emmas unborn child. Hedgepath, fearing that the revelations of a public divorce trial will rock the race conscious town. He has a private conversation with Worth, hoping to settle the matter quietly out of court. In doing so, Hedgepath ignites a course of events more devastating than any divorce trial could have produced. 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.
Lee J. Cobb
Oman Hedgepath
Anthony Zerbe
Willie Joe Worth
Roscoe Lee Browne
L.B. Jones
Lola Falana
Emma Jones
Lee Majors
Steve Mundine
Barbara Hershey
Nella Mundine
Yaphet Kotto
Sonny Boy Mosby
Arch Johnson
Stanley Bumpas
Chill Wills
Mr. Ike
Zara Cully
Mama Lavorn
Fayard Nicholas
Benny
Joseph Attles
Henry
Lauren Jones
Erleen
Dub Taylor
Mayor
Brenda Sykes
Jelly
Larry D. Mann
Grocer
Ray Teal
Chief of Police
Eve McVeagh
Miss Griggs, Secretary
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