Heavens Fall tells its story with some interesting stylistic flourishes (a brisk montage of lawyers' closing arguments, for example) and without emotional manipulation.
Overview
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Director and cast
- Terry Steen Director
- Timothy Hutton as Samuel Leibowitz
- David Strathairn as Judge James Horton
- Leelee Sobieski as Victoria Price
- Anthony Mackie as William Lee
- Bill Sage as Thomas Knight, Jr.
- Azura Skye as Ruby Bates
- James Tolkan as Thomas Knight, Sr.
- Bill Smitrovich as George Chamlee
- Maury Chaykin as Lyle Harris
- Joseph Lyle Taylor as Joseph Brodsky
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