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Murder in Coweta County (1983)

Murder in Coweta County poster
Directed by
Gary Nelson
Genre
thriller
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Georgia sheriff investigates the murder of a man whose body was dumped in a nearby county. The process digs into local power and the cover-up that follows.

tensegrittydeliberateatmosphericbleakinquiry-basedslow-burn

What happens

Murder in Coweta County is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith. It originally aired on February 15, 1983 on CBS. It is based on actual events of a murder in Coweta County in April 1948 committed in Coweta County in the U.S. state of Georgia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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