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7.7/10   1,110 votes
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Release Date:
9 September 1992 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
5 wins & 1 nomination more
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(2 articles)
Joe Berlinger's "Crude" New Film
 (From IFC. 3 September 2009, 7:33 AM, PDT)

Crude: The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You to See
 (From Huffington Post. 26 August 2009, 11:01 AM, PDT)

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Munnsville Horror more (17 total)

Cast

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Connie Chung ... Herself
John Teeple
Delbert Ward ... Himself
Lyman Ward ... Himself
Roscoe Ward ... Himself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M | USA:Not Rated
Filming Locations:
Munnsville, New York, USA more

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References "Matlock" (1986) more

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Munnsville Horror, 15 August 2008
9/10

This incursion into the private lives of rural people that turn public by exposition in the media had an eerie effect on me. It was a subjective reaction to a real story that has nothing sinister about it, but I was deeply distressed and somehow frightened by the realization of how some people still live isolated from the world, and in unhealthy conditions, while at the same time being in touch with a community that finds them eccentric but is ignorant of their dysfunctionality. The disturbing story of the four Ward brothers, farmers who lived like hermits in a shack until old age, is material for a Gothic novel or a psychological thriller. When one brother dies in 1990, and his younger brother Delbert is arrested for murder, the "Munnsville horror" begins, manipulated by the media while the community defends the accused. For their opera prima, directors Berlinger and Sinofsky spent more than a year with the case. The result was highly rewarding.

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