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The Thin Blue Lie

 
Title The Thin Blue Lie
Subtitle
Author
Publisher
Date 2000
Month
Summary "'Wrongly convicted of the arson of a Philadelphia tenement home that caused the death of five people. Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Johathan Neumann, then working for the Philadelphia Inquirer, found evidence that 7 "eyewitnesses" had been beaten and otherwise coerced to falsely identify O'Brian as the man who threw a Molotov cocktail through the buildings window, when it was actually another man, Dave Patterson. O'Brian was released after expose in 1976."
Type Fact based drama
Media Film
Country US
Format Made for Showtime movie
Pages DVD
ISBN B00007ELFE
Edition
1st Ed/Copyright
Original Title
Originally Published
Official Website
Alternate Website
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Alternate Edition
Released By
Producer
Director Roger Young
Screenwriter Daniel Helfgott
Music
Running Time 90 minutes
Color/B&W Color
Rating R
Based On Actual case
Available on Video/DVD? Yes
Starring "Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Paul Sorvino, Al Waxman, Cynthia Preston"
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