Murder in the wrong district

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Movie
German title Murder in the wrong district
Original title Murder in Coweta County
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1983
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Gary Nelson
script Dennis Nemec
production Dick Atkins ,
Dennis Nemec
music Brad Fiedel
camera Larry Pizer
cut Eric Albertson
occupation

Murder in the Wrong District (Original title: Murder in Coweta County ) is an American television film from 1983 directed by Gary Nelson and starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith . The film, also known by the alternate title Law and Order , is based on a true story that occurred in 1948 and is the literary adaptation of the book Murder in Coweta County by Margaret Anne Barnes .

The dialogue book and the dialogue direction were created by Hartmut Neugebauer.

action

1948: The wealthy farmer John Wallace rules his kingdom, a country estate in Meriwether County , Georgia , with a hard hand . His fields are cultivated by white tenants and colored workers. John Wallace is the "King of Meriwether" that Hardy Collier, the county's sheriff, is afraid of. Outwardly, Wallace is very Christian, among other things he donated new benches to the church and made his workers available for installation. Behind the facade is a racist and whiskey black marketer.

When the tenant Wilson Turner sells 20 gallons of black- distilled whiskey for $ 50 to get medicine for his sick child, he is almost caught by state police . Wallace, who strictly forbade sales in the near future, takes the money from Wilson and expels him from his country. Turner then steals Wallace's award-winning Guernsey cattle , but is caught in the neighboring district and delivered to Sheriff Collier in Meriwether. There he is released, allegedly for lack of evidence. However, Wallace and his men are already waiting for him and explain to Turner that he has not been released but has "escaped" from prison. A car chase begins across the county. Because although Wallace ordered Sheriff Collier to drain the gas from Turner's truck, Turner made it to the Sunset Tourist Camp in neighboring Coweta County . There he is caught by Wallace and hit with a revolver so hard on the head that a shot is released. Wilson collapses bleeding and is taken away in Wallace's car.

The witnesses call in Lamar Potts, the Coweta County Sheriff, known well beyond his county for his persistence and tenacity. The investigation falls under his responsibility. When his brother and Deputy Sheriff J. H. Potts remarked that Wallace was King of Meriwether, Lamar replied sharply: "This is not Meriwether."

Lamar Potts gives Hardy Collier a deadline to show off John Wallace in Coweta County. Wallace misjudges the situation: he had to kill Turner or every little thief would come along and steal from him. Potts would surely understand. Sheriff Collier sees it differently, as does the fortune teller Mayhayley Lancaster, whose services Wallace frequently uses. She “sees” the body that Wallace sank in a deep well in the forest. And she sees a strong man who will find the body and hunt down the killer.

Wallace then takes the corpse with two of his workers out of the well and burns it, he has the ashes thrown into a swamp.

Since the set deadline has now passed, Sheriff Potts gets a search warrant for the Kingdom and calls in the state police and the FBI . You find Wallace's blood-streaked jacket. When Wallace finally follows the sheriff's summons in Coweta County, he has an excuse for the blood on his jacket, but is identified by the owner of the Sunset tourist camp and arrested for murder. Potts finds blood in Wallace's car and on the revolver that knocked Turner down.

Lamar Potts puts together a search party. The search in the swamp remains unsuccessful. There is now a $ 500 reward available for solving the murder. Potts receives an anonymous phone call in which the name Tom Strickland - the cousin of John Wallace - is mentioned. Strickland is arrested, goes nuts in the confines of the cell and testifies. The body is still missing, however.

The anonymous caller finally gives Potts the names of the two workers who were involved in the cremation. Potts uses them to find the well that contains human brain matter. He also finds unburned bone fragments in the swamp. The two workers testify that these are the definitive remains of Wilson Turner.

In the ensuing trial, for which 38 witnesses were summoned and 43 pieces of evidence were gathered, John Wallace's attorney tried to prove that Turner was beaten down in Coweta County but died in Meriwether. Thus Lamar Potts would have investigated illegally and the evidence could not be used. Wallace's followers all refuse to testify on the grounds that they can incriminate themselves.

Despite advice from his lawyer to the contrary, John Wallace insists on a testimony of his own because his words have power over people. In his testimony, Wallace is talking about head and neck or, as his lawyer puts it, he has dug his own grave.

Wallace notes the announced verdict with disbelief; while still on death row, he expects to be pardoned by the governor. Lamar Potts leaves the prison before the execution, which is later carried out.

criticism

"A little conspicuous crime thriller made for television, inspired by a true story from 1948 in the state of Georgia."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film received a nomination for the Edgar Allen Poe Awards .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murder in Coweta County - American drama, detective film from 1983. FILMS-TRUE EVENTS . Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Murder in the Wrong District (1983) Deutsche Synchronksartei . Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  3. ^ Law and order (1983) two thousand and one. Film lexicon . Retrieved January 23, 2018.