Macon County Line (1974)

Directed by

Richard Compton

Genre

drama film, action film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1970s rural Tennessee, three young people are falsely accused of murdering a woman. The community takes violent revenge on them.

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What happens

Macon County Line is a 1974 American independent Southern Gothic crime thriller film directed by Richard Compton who cowrote the film's screenplay with Max Baer Jr. basing it on the real life murder of a woman in rural Macon County, Tennessee, and the actions of retribution taken by community members against three young people who were falsely accused of the crime. The $225,000 film reportedly became the most profitable film of 1974 (in cost-to-gross ratio), earning $18.8 million in North America and over $30 million worldwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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