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Heaven's Fall

 
Title Heaven's Fall
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Author
Publisher
Date 2006
Month
Summary "Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train. In the spring of 1931 nine black hoboes were pulled off an Alabama freight train and arrested for allegedly raping two young white women in a gondola car. Ranging in ages from twelve to twenty years, they were quickly tried and sentenced to the electric chair. News of their convictions spread and the plight of the Scottsboro Boys became a 'cause celebre' that fueled the fire of socialism worldwide, forcing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and resulting in new trials for all nine defendants. New Yorker Samuel Leibowitz, a savvy and self-assured defense lawyer with an impressive string of courtroom victories, agreed to represent the accused at their retrials in Decatur, Alabama. His journey into the Deep South symbolized the polarity of the times and set in motion a legal battle that ultimately changed the course of American jurisprudence."
Type Fact based drama
Media Film
Country US
Format Released to theaters
Pages DVD
ISBN
Edition
1st Ed/Copyright
Original Title
Originally Published
Official Website
Alternate Website http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1185535-heavens_fall/
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Released By
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Director Terry Green
Screenwriter
Music
Running Time 120 minutes
Color/B&W Color
Rating
Based On Actual case
Available on Video/DVD?
Starring "Timothy Hutton, and David Strathairn"
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