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| ACTORS: | Frances McDormand, Stanley Tucci |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Daniel Anker, Barak Goodman |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | PBS Home Video |
| FEATURES: | NTSC |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| UPC: | 794054841435 |
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Excellent documentary on an American disgrace! The Scottsboro incident caught my attention last year when I read a book on the subject. I was absolutely horrified and disgusted by the blatant racism, provincialism, and anti-semitism which grotesquely perverted justice in 1930's Alabama. Therefore, it was with great interest that I watched this documentary. It was exceptionally well done. I especially enjoyed the reading of the trial transcript while the film showed stills of the participants- the description of the cross-examination of Victoria Price, one of the accusers and an outrageous perjurer, by legendary defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz is gripping. Also the interviews with people who were actually present at the trial add alot of color to the film.
However, the documentary really does not go into great detail how the lengthy prison sentences these innocent men served ruined them. Although the film comments that Haywood Patterson, the most famous of the "boys," became a "creature" of the prison system it does not say in what way. The book I read went into detail how Patterson became a "wolf" in prison in order to survive. Patterson was known for assaulting other inmates, and he was greatly feared by the guards. He also became an aggressive prison rapist with his own "gal-boy." (It is ironic that Patterson was sent to prison for a rape he did not commit, and it was prison that actually turned him into a rapist.) Patterson went into prison as a tough but innocent young man, and he emerged as a vicious animal. I felt the film should have shown more of the horrifying consequences of this injustice, and really bring home the reality of the evils of racism and perjury.