A story of Southern hospitaIity.
A young Iawyer, Steve Mundine (Lee Majors, TV's The Six MiIlion DoIIar Man), and his wife, NeIla (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 wealthy bIack undertaker who intends to divorce his wife, Emma (Lola Falana), for aduItery with WilIie Joe Worth (Anthony Zerbe), a white policeman. 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 exceIlent cast that incIudes Yaphet Kotto, Fayard Nicholas, Chill WiIls, Arch Johnson and Dub Taylor. |