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Fool's Parade

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Original title

Fool's Parade

Year

1971

Running time

98 min.

Country

United States

Director

Andrew V. McLaglen

Screenwriter

James Lee Barrett. Novel: Davis Grubb

Cast

Music

Henry Vars

Cinematography

Harry Stradling Jr.

Producer

Columbia Pictures

Genre

Drama | The Great Depression. 1930s. Melodrama

Movie Groups

Davis Grubb Adaptations

Synopsis

When an ex-con tries to open a general store, a corrupt prison official and banker try to get in the way. In 1935 Glory, West Virginia, convicts Mattie Appleyard, Lee Cottrill and young Johnny Jesus are freed from the penitentiary and escorted by brutish prison guard Dallas "Doc" Council to the local train station. There the three men plan to set out to the neighboring town of Stone Coal to jointly open a general store paid for by the twenty-five thousand dollars Mattie has earned over his forty years of hard labor. Unknown to the men, Council is in league with Glory banker Homer Grindstaff, who has been embezzling released prisoners' money for years.

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Fool's Parade

1971

Andrew V. McLaglen

5.4

(254)