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Midweek Cinema: The Liberation of L. B. Jones

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on BBC Two England

A William Wyler Season starring Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee Majors, Barbara Hershey, Yaphet Kotto, Chill Wills, Lola Falana

William Wyler's last film, to date, is a powerful, uncompromising study of racism in a small Tennessee town. Lawyer Oman Hedgepath is persuaded by his nephew to take on a black client - an affluent undertaker seeking a divorce from his wife who is having an affair with a white policeman. Fears that court proceedings could bring damaging evidence out into the open are enough to make the whites close ranks - and they take sinister and violent action.
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Contributors

Based on the novel by:
Jesse Bill Ford
Director:
William Wyler
Oman Hedgepath:
Lee J Cobb
Willie Joe Worth:
Anthony Zerbe
Lord Byron Jones:
Roscoe Lee Browne
Emma Jones:
Lola Falana
Steve Mundine:
Lee Majors
Nella Mundine:
Barbara Hershey
Sonny Boy Morsby:
Yaphet Kotto
Stanley Bumpas:
Arch Johnson
Mr Ike:
Chill Wills
Mama Lavorn:
Zara Cully
Benny:
Fayard Nicholas
Henry:
Joe Attles
Erleen:
Lauren Jones
Mayor:
Dub Taylor
Jelly:
Brenda Sykes
The grocer:
Larry D Mann
Chief of Police:
Ray Teal
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