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Lawman Without a Gun (1979)

Alabama's First Black Sheriff. America's Most Dangerous Job.

9.0(1)1h 30mMay 30, 1979

Jerrold Freedman

Director

Jerrold Freedman

Writer

Rate

Diary

Overview

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

Cast

Louis Gossett Jr.

Tom Hayward

Clu Gulager

Marvin Tayman

Mary Alice

Minnie Hayward

Barry Brown

Fred Tayman

Lawman Without a Gun · Cinemalant

BH

Barton Heyman

George Tayman

James McEachin

Harris McIntyre

Lonny Chapman

Sheriff Harvey Johnson

Helen Martin

Mrs. Cartwright

John Crawford

Sgt. Hunt

John Ashton

1st State Trooper

Burton Gilliam

Rev. Farrell

Philip Michael Thomas

Rufus Cartwright

Katherine Pass

Loretta Tayman

Joe Morton

Louis

Royce Clark

Trooper at Factory

Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: May 30, 1979
Production: Roger Gimbel Productions, Abby Mann Productions, EMI Television
Country: United States of America

Keywords

sheriffcivil rights

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