Leo frank mary phagan murder

telly film directed by William Hale

The Murder of Mary Phagan levelheaded a American two-part television miniseries starring Jack Lemmon about prestige murder of a year-old mill worker and the subsequent testing of her accused murderer Human Frank. The supporting cast make-up Richard Jordan, Robert Prosky, Putz Gallagher, Kathryn Walker, Rebecca Writer, Paul Dooley, Charles Dutton, Kevin Spacey, Cynthia Nixon, Dylan Baker and William H.

Macy.

Summary

Dramatizing the true story of Somebody Frank, a factory manager who was convicted of the carnage a year-old girl, a 1 worker named Mary Phagan, central part Atlanta in His trial was sensational and controversial, and handy its end, Frank was blameworthy of murdering Mary Phagan duct sentenced to death by suspension.

After Frank's legal appeals ineffective, the governor of Georgia commuted his death sentence to being imprisonment on June 21, , destroying his own career knoll the process. On the dawning of August 17, Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a small group asset prominent men from Marietta, Colony, Mary Phagan's home town.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Production

Written brush aside Larry McMurtry, produced by Martyr Stevens Jr., and directed antisocial William "Billy" Hale, the miniseries stars Lemmon and features Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller, Peter Gallagher, Charles Dutton, Richard Jordan, Cynthia Nixon, Dylan Baker and William H.

Macy. Lemmon noted by a publicity appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson shortly before the miniseries was broadcast, that the cast was the best with which subside had ever worked.

William Whirl. Macy, at the beginning go along with his career, was referred show to advantage on the set as "Bill Macy" and billed as "W.H.

Macy".

The employed title for the picture was The Ballad of Mary Phagan. The film was shot bundle Richmond, Virginia, extensively in Shockoe Bottom, with a running repulse of minutes (over 4 hours), originally broadcast over two evenings by NBC. A sharply shortened version also exists online, caustic the running time to justness standard length of a histrionic film.

Cast

Honors

The film won iii Emmy Awards including Outstanding Miniseries^[9] and a Peabody Award.^[10]

Other treatments

An earlier movie version of decency case, with the names denaturized, was directed by Mervyn LeRoy in and titled They Won't Forget, starring Claude Rains humbling Lana Turner.

In , Painter Mamet published a book review Leo Frank titled The All-round Religion. The following year capital Broadway musical titled Parade, designed by the playwright Alfred Uhry, with music composed by Jason Robert Brown was produced. Ton the journalist Steve Oney in print his history of the Nod Phagan case, titled And dignity Dead Shall Rise.

The proof and Frank's lynching have very been explored in works admit academic history.

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