Free, White and 21 (1963)
- Directed by
- Larry Buchanan
- Genre
- drama film, trial film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A black man is on trial for the rape of a white woman in 1960s Dallas. The movie follows the legal proceedings and the racial tensions that surround them.
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What happens
Free, White and 21 is a 1963 movie by self-proclaimed "schlockmeister" director Larry Buchanan. It was based on the true story of the controversial trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman in Dallas, Texas in the 1960s. The title is a version of the archaic American idiomatic phrase "free, white, and twenty-one", which means "beholden to no one". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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