Read all. Emma Jones : It going be something. I can't let nobody rob my baby and I can't let my baby enter this world without a dime! Sign In. Crime Drama Romance. Director William Wyler. Lee J. Top credits Director William Wyler. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Cobb Oman Hedgepath as Oman Hedgepath. Roscoe Lee Browne L. Jones as L. Chill Wills Mr. Ike as Mr. Fayard Nicholas Benny as Benny.
Lauren Jones Erleen as Erleen. Dub Taylor Mayor as Mayor. Brenda Sykes Jelly as Jelly. Larry D. Mann Grocer as Grocer. William Wyler. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Director William Wyler's final film. Some of his best friends were black Did you know Edit. Trivia The movie marked the first time that a black man killed a white man on-screen.
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Jones is one of these. A nail biting inferno of racial hate and discomfort. Don't read the tagline and stay away from certain posters, it might spoil it! But even though I knew part of the outcome parts of this film stopped me from breathing, and I'm still filled with this heavy indescribable feeling.
Tensions run high when a well-respected and powerful lawyer gets involved in the case and forces the officer to break-up the affair…. As soon as we see Yaphet Kotto rolling into town on the train, complete with a revolver in a cigar box, and hopping out just before it pulls into the station, we know there's trouble afoot.
Only the thing is Kotto is not L. Jones and the main thrust of the story is not his search for revenge against the cop who beat and nearly killed him as a 13 year old. Instead the title character is the rather humble town funeral director played by Roscoe Lee Browne, I should say 'black' funeral director because this is Tennessee and segregation here stretches all the way to the grave, and no doubt beyond as far as the….
William Wyler was one of those all time great directors who was never pigeonholed into a genre. He made some of the greatest films of all time, from featherweight comedies, to weepy melodramas, to action epics. I had never even heard of this, his final film, and now having seen it I can't for the life of me understand why this is not better known today.
Wyler's final film is a brutally honest and tragic story of the relationship between black people and the police. Apparently Wyler was very concerned about race relations during the civil rights era and wanted to make this to shine a light on some of the atrocities, rapes, and executions that police officers in the….
Crazy that the writer of this story about the murder of an innocent black man and the systemic racism within the judicial system that allowed for his killer to go free would be arrested and freed for murdering an innocent black man just 1 year after this movie was released. Review by Nathan Gregory.
The Liberation of L. Jones closes out William Wyler's impressive and legendary directorial career on some dissonant notes. But none of those films confront their issues quite as head-on as The Liberation of L. Jones does. Even in The Best Years of Our Lives , a film that featured a magnificent performance from real-life World War II veteran Harold Russell who lost both hands in combat, the most heartbreaking scenes of him struggling with his new disability are openly sympathetic.
No one wants this patriot to be suffering the way he is. But L. Jones was probably more…. By the end it was a split between light and dark that made him capable of remaining an important voice with films like the effervescent How to Steal a Million…. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps.
Where to watch. Cast Lee J. Director William Wyler. Ronald Lubin. Carl Kress. Robert Surtees.
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