Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
| Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | |
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| Directed by | Marvin J. Chomsky |
| Produced by | Russell Stoneham Philip Saltzman |
| Written by | Don Whitehead Calvin Clements |
| Starring | Ned Beatty John Beck |
| Music by | Mundell Lowe |
| Distributed by | CBS Television |
| Release date(s) | February 20, 1975 |
| Running time | 215 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan is a 1975 two-part television movie, which dramatised the events following the 1964 disappearance and murder of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi. In this, it is similar in theme to the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning, though some names and details were changed, and both productions pick up the approximate storyline of the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi.
Attack on Terror starred Ned Beatty, John Beck, Marlyn Mason, Billy Green Bush, Dabney Coleman, Virginia Gregg, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Sheila Larken, Hilly Hicks, and two M*A*S*H alumni, Wayne Rogers ("Trapper John") and Johnny Haymer ("Sgt. Zale").
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[edit] Selected cast
- Ned Beatty as Ollie Thompson (fictonalized representation of Cecil Price)
- John Beck as George Greg
- George Grizzard as Attorney Clay
- Rip Torn as Glen Tuttle (fictionalized representation of Sam Bowers)
- Dabney Coleman as Paul Mathison
- Peter Strauss as Ben Jacobs (fictionalized representation of assassination victim Michael Schwerner)
- Hilly Hicks as Charles Gilmore (fictionalized representation of assassination victim James Chaney)
- Andrew Parks as Steven Bronson (fictionalized representation of assassination victim Andrew Goodman)
- Ed Flanders as Ralph Paine (fictionalized representation of Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights John Doar
- Lew Askew as Aaron Cord (fictionalized representation of Alton Wayne Roberts)
- Geoffrey Lewis as Ed Duncan (fictionalized representation of Lawrence Rainey)
- Paulene Myers as Mrs. Gilmore (fictionalized representation of Fannie Lee Chaney)
- Sheila Larken as Linn Jacobs (fictionalized representation of Rita Schwerner)
[edit] Production notes
The Calvin Clements script was based on Don Whitehead's book, Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi by Don Whitehead (pub. Funk & Wagnalls, 1970).
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan at the Internet Movie Database
- Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan at AllRovi
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