Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Martin Onassis I can't believe I don't know anything about this event in US History, but then there are so many examples of southern racist idiocy and violence in US history, it's kind of hard to keep up with them all.I've never even heard of this movie despite it including major actors like Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey because it makes Georgians and Southerners look, well, not too good is putting it mildly.Rural racists wrongly accuse a Jewish factory manager of murder, and railroad him using testimony from the actual murderer, a criminal with a long record, then hound a governor who commutes his sentence out of the state, and then they lynch the man after his sentence has been commuted. See the sequel to more of the lovely legacy of this wondrous part of the nation in Mississippi Burning. Makes you shudder to think of what it would be like to get railroaded by a gang of low-IQ violent morons. Read up on the real event online - its horrifying. The movie is not just based on a true story, it is the true story, sorted out 70 years after the fact.Technically a great movie. All the leads deliver great performances, and I always enjoy watching Jack Lemmon speak for good and justice. The movie is a lot fairer to the lynchers than it had to be. There isn't a conservative network or major channel out there that wants this film broadcast again, but thank the THIS channel for being a great venue of alternative (once mainstream) films of the past. I really appreciate that channel. Too much in fact, it's distracting me regularly.

trob226 This TV miniseries would put most feature films to shame. First rate story, historically based, first rate cast all at the top of their game, all seemed to know that this was an important story to tell. The late Jack Lemmon, the late Richard Jordan, Peter Gallagher, Charles Dutton and Robert Prosky were spot on, and I thought Rebecca Miller as Lucille Frank was marvelous. Even the more minor characters (which included a young William H. Macy as "W.H.Macy") were letter perfect. The only thing that keeps me from giving the film a 10 is that it needed to be tightened up in the last hour or so, but if you edited it a bit and otherwise released it as a feature right now, Oscars would be handed out. It's that compelling and that well executed.

Joseph Harder The basic story..the railroading and lynching of Leo Frank is true.Their are certain melodramatic touches-Governor Slaton never actually exposed the real killer, for one thing-but on the whole, this is an extremely accurate, and insightful historical drama. The performances by a superb cast are uniformly excellent, and the rich details of the production design succeed in accurately conveying a time and a place that are closer to us than many would like to think.In short, an earnest, stirring, well made TV movie-a "9"

"SPEC" george stevens ,jr. always does quality things as was this. william hale,ii was super leading the plot to climax of theme and drew out best in characters. since the initial showing i have heard many others express their opinion that this was a super presentation. congrats george and billy hale and the fine extras cast of richmond,va. area.