The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)

Directed by

William Wyler

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A black funeral home director in Tennessee takes on a white police force to seek justice for his uncle. The story follows his legal battle and the personal costs it brings.

tenseseriousslow-burnsombergrittycontroversialthought-provokingdarksouthern-gothic

What happens

The Liberation of L.B. Jones is a 1970 American neo-noir film directed by William Wyler, his final project in a career that spanned 45 years. The screenplay by Jesse Hill Ford and Stirling Silliphant is based on Ford's 1965 novel The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones. The novel, in turn, was based on events that happened in a Southern town where writer Ford lived. After he wrote the book, he was verbally attacked for writing about the events that had occurred in his town. The motion picture's release added to the controversy, especially in Humboldt, Tennessee, where Ford lived. The film stars Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Lola Falana, Anthony Zerbe, Lee Majors, Arch Johnson, Yaphet Kotto, Eve McVeagh, Chill Wills, and Barbara Hershey in an early role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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