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Mississippi Burning

on BBC Two England

First showing on network television for
Alan Parker 's study of racism in America's Deep South, starring Gene Hackman Willem Dafoe
Mississippi, 1964: FBI agents Ward and Anderson arrive in the small town of Jessup to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists. Enraged by the increasingly hostile behaviour of the local Ku Klux Klan, Ward drafts in more and more agents -and starts a war.
0 STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p888 • FILMS: pages 47-54

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Parker
Anderson:
Gene Hackman
Ward:
Willem Dafoe
Mrs Pell:
Frances McDormand
Deputy Pell:
Brad Dourif
Mayor Tilman:
R Lee Ermey
Sheriff Stuckey:
Gailard Sartain
Townley:
Stephen Tobolowsky

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