The Liberation of L. B. Jones
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
William Wyler
Lee J. Cobb
Anthony Zerbe
Roscoe Lee Browne
Lola Falana
Lee Majors
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Steve and Nella Mundine arrive in Somerton, Tennessee, where Steve is to join the law firm of uncle Oman Hedgepath. Arriving on the same train is Sonny Boy Mosby, a young black bent on avenging a childhood beating inflicted by white policeman Stanley Bumpas. Hedgepath is persuaded by Steve to accept the divorce suit of Lord Byron Jones, a wealthy black funeral director. Although Jones has named white policeman Willie Joe Worth as corespondent, his wife Emma contests the suit, hoping to receive a settlement sufficient to meet the needs of the child she has conceived by Worth. When Hedgepath informs the officer of the suit, he is alarmed. Fearful of scandal, Worth demands that Emma forego the contest and beats her when she refuses. After fruitlessly requesting Jones to drop the suit, Worth, assisted by officer Bumpas, arrests the undertaker. Although Jones escapes, he is pursued into a junkyard. Tired of flight, the black confronts the officers and is promptly shot and castrated. Notwithstanding the policemen's confession, Hedgepath and the town mayor decline to prosecute the murderers. Sonny Boy Mosby, however, unknowingly avenges Jones' murder by pushing Bumpas into a harvester. Despairing of southern justice, the Mundines leave town, departing on the same train as Sonny Boy Mosby.
Director
William Wyler
Cast
Lee J. Cobb
Anthony Zerbe
Roscoe Lee Browne
Lola Falana
Lee Majors
Barbara Hershey
Yaphet Kotto
Arch Johnson
Chill Wills
Zara Cully
Fayard Nicholas
Joseph Attles
Lauren Jones
Dub Taylor
Brenda Sykes
Larry D. Mann
Ray Teal
Eve Mcveagh
Sonora Mckeller
Robert Van Meter
Jack Grinnage
John S. Jackson
Crew
Vi Alford
Gene Ashman
Seth Banks
Ken Bell
Pieter Bergema
Elmer Bernstein
Jordan Cronenweth
Jesse Hill Ford
M. Frankovich Jr.
William Johnson
Robert M. Jones
Virginia Jones
Carl Kress
Ben Lane
Harold Lee
Ronald Lubin
Ronald Lubin
Terry Meade
Arthur Piantadosi
Anthony Ray
Kenneth A. Reid
Russell Saunders
Marshall Schlom
Stirling Silliphant
Jack Solomon
Robert Surtees
Robert Swink
Robert Swink
Frank [a.] Tuttle
William Wyler
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
Filmed on location in Humboldt, Tennessee. The working title of this film is The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring March 1970
Released in United States Spring March 1970
