Joe Hill (1971)

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117 min - Biography | Drama - 25 August 1971 (Sweden)

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About the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.

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Cast

Credited cast:
	Thommy Berggren	...	Joe Hill
	Anja Schmidt	...	Lucia
	Kelvin Malave	...	Fox
	Evert Anderson	...	Blackie
	Cathy Smith	...	Cathy
	Hasse Persson	...	Paul
	David Moritz	...	David
	Richard Weber	...	Richard
	Joel Miller	...	Ed Rowan
	Frank Molinari	...	Tenor (as Franco Molinari)
	Robert Faeder	...	George
	Michael Logan
	Wendy Geyer	...	Elizabeth (as Wendy Geier)
	Liska March	...	Sister of Mercy
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Karl I. Dambacher Jr.	...	Townsperson

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Storyline

In the early 1900's, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to get on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender. Written by Movie-Man <soderberg@softhome.net>

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