Carolina Skeletons 1991  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Erman
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Melissa Leo, Paul Roebling, Bill Cobbs, Henderson Forsythe, Clifton James, Richard Jenkins, G.D. Spradlin, Rosanna Carter, Trazana Beverley, Marc Macaulay
After a career in the Army, James Bragg (Louis Gossett Jr.) returns home in the early 1960s. He is haunted by the thought of his brother's execution 30 years previously for the rape and murder of two girls. Thus, he begins a search for the real killers, and he soon recognizes that there are those who do not want their secrets uncovered. Made for cable TV.
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A Gathering of Old Men 1987  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Murder on the Bayou
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Joe Seneca, Woody Strode, Julius Harris, Will Patton, Adam Storke, Dave Petitjean, Rosanna Carter, Tiger Haynes, Papa John Creach, Walter Breaux, Joe "Flash" Riley, Danny Barker
This is an excellent drama depicting social mores of rural Louisiana. When a White racist is shot, plantation manager Candy Marshall (Holly Hunter) gathers together a group of 18 elderly Black men to keep vigilantes away from the chief suspect, Black sharecropper Mathu (Louis Gossett Jr.). Sheriff Mapes (Richard Widmark) does confront them, and the men courageously step forward as a unit and claim responsibility for the act.
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| 1. Carolina Skeletons (1991)
2. A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
aka: Murder on the Bayou
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