Synopsis
The Murder of Mary Phagan, a 1987 two-part American TV miniseries made by Orion Pictures and distributed by NBC. It has a running time of 251 minutes. It is a dramatization of the story of Leo Frank, a factory manager charged and convicted with murdering a 13-year-old girl, a factory worker named Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913. The trial was sensational and controversial. After Frank's legal appeals had failed, the governor of Georgia in 1915 commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1915 Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a small group of prominent men of Marietta, Georgia
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Cast
- Jack LemmonGov. John Slaton
- Richard JordanHugh Dorsey
- Robert ProskyTom Watson
- Peter GallagherLeo Frank
- Kathryn WalkerSally Slaton
- Rebecca MillerLucille Frank
- Kevin SpaceyWes Brent
- Paul DooleyWilliam Burns
- Charles S. DuttonJim Conley
- Cynthia NixonDoreen
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