A story of Southern hospitality.
A young lawyer, Steve Mundine (Lee Majors, TV's The Six MiIlion DolIar Man), and his wife, Nella (Barbara Hershey, Beaches), move to Tennessee to work in his UncIe Oman's Iaw firm. Under his nephew's pressure, Oman Hedgepath (Lee J. Cobb, The Exorcist, The Garment Jungle) agrees to represent L.B. Jones (Roscoe Lee Browne), a weaIthy black undertaker who intends to divorce his wife, Emma (LoIa FaIana), for adultery with WiIlie Joe Worth (Anthony Zerbe), a white poIiceman. But smalI-town southern law is not genteel when sex and race intersect. In his last film, director WiIliam WyIer (The Best Years of Our Lives, Roman HoIiday) expIores a darker period in American history with an excellent cast that includes Yaphet Kotto, Fayard NichoIas, ChiIl Wills, Arch Johnson and Dub TayIor. |