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Overview
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Writers:
Dennis Nemec (teleplay)
Margaret Anne Barnes (book)
Release Date:
15 February 1983 (USA) more
Tagline:
Bribery. Bloodshed. Now ... Justice.
Plot:
A county sheriff goes after the richest man in the county, who has committed murder and considers himself... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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Surprisingly good, well acted Southern Gothic police procedural more (16 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Johnny Cash | ... | Lamar Potts | |
| Andy Griffith | ... | John Wallace | |
| Earl Hindman | ... | J.H. Potts | |
| Ed Van Nuys | ... | Huddleston | |
| Robert Schenkkan | ... | Wilson Turner | |
| Jo Henderson | ... | Josephine Wallace | |
| Daniel Keyes | ... | Elzie Hancock | |
| Danny Nelson | ... | Sheriff Hardy Collier | |
| Norman Matlock | ... | Albert Brooks | |
| Brent Jennings | ... | Robert Lee Gates | |
| June Carter Cash | ... | Mayhayley Lancaster | |
| James Neale | ... | A. L. Henson | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Earl Poole Ball | ... | Steve Smith | |
| Dan Biggers | ... | Judge Boykin | |
| Marc Clement | ... | J. C. Otwell | |
| Bill Crabb | ... | Strickland Cousin | |
| Stuart Culpepper | ... | Tom Strickland | |
| Charles Darden | ... | Gas Thief | |
| Doug Dillingham | ... | Deputy #2 | |
| Bobby Dunn | ... | Liquor Runner | |
| Clara Dunn | ... | Sally Lancaster | |
| J. Don Ferguson | ... | Jim Hillin | |
| Wilbur Fitzgerald | ... | Prosecutor | |
| Harry George | ... | Mobley's Attorney | |
| James Oliver Griffin | ... | Strickland's Attorney | |
| Ellen Heard | ... | Mrs. Eula Baker | |
| Harry Howell | ... | Sivell's Attorney | |
| Hugh Jarrett | ... | Millard Rigsby | |
| Rebecca Jernigan | ... | Irene | |
| Ray Johnson | ... | Bailiff | |
| Cindi Knight | ... | Julia Turner | |
| Victor Langdon | ... | Deputy #1 | |
| Evan E. Lee | ... | Tommy Windham | |
| Wallace Merck | ... | Sheriff Threadgill | |
| Larry Quackenbush | ... | Jury Foreman | |
| Nolin Randolph | ... | Luther | |
| Jerry Rushing | ... | Herring Sevill | |
| Burt Slade | ... | Warden | |
| Bea Swanson | ... | Vivian | |
| Betty S. Talmage | ... | Geneva Yeager | |
| Walter Wilder | ... | Woody | |
| Wallace Wilkinson | ... | Woodsman | |
| Don Young | ... | Minister | |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Last Blood
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100 min
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Daniel Keyes' final TV performance. more
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Anachronisms: Courtroom scenes show Georgia flag incorporating Confederate battle flag. Movie takes place in 1947; this flag wasn't adopted until 1956. more
Quotes:
Lamar Potts:
Hello John. I'm about ready to leave. Thought I'd drop by and see if there's anything you might need?
John Wallace:
Ya mean, like a fancy last meal? No, I wouldn't want you to go hunting fried chicken and strawberry pie today, and then, tomorrow I wind up eating supper at my own house. It ain't gonna happen, they ain't gonna kill me. There'll be a phone call, always has been.
[pauses]
John Wallace:
You know, Lamar ... we're a lot alike ... each running his own county, having power over other men ...best feeling in the world! Make ya do anything ... except give it up.
Lamar Potts:
How powerful is the man who can't control himself?
John Wallace:
You're still down on me for my murderin' ways? I've only killed ... four men in my whole life, and each one of 'em had it coming.
Lamar Potts:
Those lives didn't mean anything to you?
John Wallace:
[gives Potts a strange look] I'm the head of the Kingdom. I was raised for that. My momma always told me, "Do what you have to do! Never let your conscience get in your way."
Lamar Potts:
I'm gonna pray for you, John.
[shakes John's hand]
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This little remembered made-for TV movie( based on a true story)is, in fact a taut, well acted thriller, with a rich sense of local color. Andy Griffith and Johnny Cash are, in fact very good actors, whose talents are rarely used Griffith gives what must rank as one of his greatest performances ..perhaps his most chilling since A Face in The Crowd, while Cash invests his Dogged, intelligent sheriff with quiet authority. Johnny's wife , June Carter Cash ( a fine actress, as she proved in The Apostle) is haunting as a backwoods "wise woman'( in fact, a Christian "witch")