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Mountain Justice (1937)

Mountain Justice poster
Directed by
Michael Curtiz
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 23m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman faces a hostile small town and a harsh legal system after a violent confrontation with her abusive coal miner father. She must fight for her freedom as secrets and prejudice threaten to overwhelm her.

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What happens

Mountain Justice is a 1937 American drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring George Brent, Josephine Hutchinson, and Guy Kibbee. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is loosely based on the story of Edith Maxwell, who was convicted in 1935 of murdering her coal miner father in Pound, Virginia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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