The Mary Phagan case

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Movie
German title The Mary Phagan case
Original title The Murder of Mary Phagan
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 251 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director William Hale
script Jeffrey Lane ,
George Stevens Junior
production George Stevens Junior
music Maurice Jarre
camera Nicholas D. Knowland
cut John A. Martinelli
occupation

The case of Mary Phagan (Original title: The Murder of Mary Phagan ) is a miniseries of the American television from 1988 directed by William Hale with Jack Lemmon in the lead role.

The miniseries is a drama that tells the true story of the lynching committed against Leo Frank in the early 20th century, who was wrongly tried and convicted of murder in the United States .

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This true story began in Atlanta in 1913. Leo Frank, a factory manager in Marietta , Georgia , was charged with the murder of fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee of the factory. He was sentenced to death in a dubious manner in court as the verdict was pronounced under the influence of the crowd, some of which was incited by the press, who were all around and in the courthouse, influencing what happened and ready during the trial was to kill Leo Frank, which the court had noticed during the trial and therefore feared because of her own life.

The appeals for the judgment also failed accordingly. However, since there was public pressure from other parts of America over the case, the governor decided to reopen the case. During the investigation, it became clear to him that Leo Frank was innocent. He also found reasons to believe that the main witness for the prosecution was the murderer. So he decided to commute the death penalty to life imprisonment and arranged for Leo Frank to be taken to an out-of-state prison for his own safety.

Even so, people in Georgia generally refused to accept the governor's decision. As a result, there was great unrest throughout the state, which is why many had to leave it. A group of them later kidnapped Leo Frank from prison to lynch him. He was later hanged in a public place for his alleged crime. The perpetrators of the crime were never charged, the governor fell out of favor for trying to do the right thing, the prosecutor later became governor, and the real killer was never punished.

It was only after many years that a witness to what had happened back then confessed that Leo Frank's main witness, Jim Conley, was the murderer. He said it did not, because he had threatened him with death, he was to testify, and for fear of the people in the state of Georgia, because they were obsessed to see dead by the desire Leo Frank, as he rich and Jew was and because people were suffering from the economic crisis that prevailed at the time, which is why they longed to have someone pay for it. According to this statement, Leo Frank was later pardoned post mortem .

Reviews

"Film adaptation of an authentic judicial scandal in which an innocent man is found guilty of the murder of a 13-year-old girl and is lynched."

- Kino.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Murder of Mary Phagan Kino.de . Retrieved April 25, 2018.