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Valley of the Heart's Delight

  • 2006
  • PG-13
  • 1h 40m
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5.4/10
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Valley of the Heart's Delight (2006)
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When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed young reporter takes on the powers-that-be to prevent the lynching of two... Read allWhen a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed young reporter takes on the powers-that-be to prevent the lynching of two men he believes are innocent.When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed young reporter takes on the powers-that-be to prevent the lynching of two men he believes are innocent.

  • Director
    • Tim Boxell
  • Writer
    • Miles Murphy
  • Stars
    • Gabriel Mann
    • Pete Postlethwaite
    • Emily Harrison
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    5.4/10
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    • Director
      • Tim Boxell
    • Writer
      • Miles Murphy
    • Stars
      • Gabriel Mann
      • Pete Postlethwaite
      • Emily Harrison
    • 3User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Gabriel Mann
    Gabriel Mann
    • Jack Pacheco
    Pete Postlethwaite
    Pete Postlethwaite
    • Albion Munson
    Emily Harrison
    Emily Harrison
    • Helen Walsh
    Diana Scarwid
    Diana Scarwid
    • Natalie Walsh
    Bruce McGill
    Bruce McGill
    • Horace Walsh
    Tom Bower
    Tom Bower
    • Sheriff Ackle
    Ron Roggé
    Ron Roggé
    • Deputy Dully
    Val Diamond
    • Sulvia Daumier
    Ed Holmes
    • Gov. Brodie
    David Barth
    • Ralph Rutz
    Cully Fredricksen
    Cully Fredricksen
    • Agent Tucker
    Howard Swain
    Howard Swain
    • Bill Vente
    Robert Kennedy
    • James Sullivan
    Ralph Miller
    • Tom Stanton
    Robert Ernst
    • Ernest Maloney
    Rod Gnapp
    • Harlan Grasso
    Phil Stockton
    • Mr. Brewster
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      • Miles Murphy
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      Baily Hopkins's debut.
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      [first lines]

      Jack Pacheco: Most of us face a choice in life that we never thought we'd have to make. But we make it, and either remain true to ourselves, or spend the rest of our lives wishing we had.

      Jack Pacheco: I was the height of the Great Depression. Franklin Roosevelt was president of the United States. Adolph Hitler Chancellor of Germany. G-Men chased gangsters. King Kong climbed the Empire State Building. And I had just gone to work as a reporter for Albion Munson, publisher of the only newspaper in one of the safest, most beautiful and prosperous valleys in California. Munson took all the credit.

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    Wow... another "FURY" and "TRY & GET ME"... people have been trying to make something out of this story for years... I know three people who were there and witnessed the whole thing... this is the 3rd or 4th movie that has been made of this incident, plus at least three books written about it that I know of. Robert Conot, the guy who wrote "Judgement at Nuremberg" did a semi-fictional account of the Harts kidnapping & lynching called "Ministers of Vengeance" that never went anywhere. There are some that say the family paid a lot of bucks so that it wouldn't go anywhere, probably due to Conot's portrayal of the family members (think Peyton Place) but you'd have to ask someone from L Hart & Son, Inc. about that & I doubt you'd ever get an answer. What I am sure of is this... that "4 guys in a car" theory is absolute bullshit! They had nothing to do with the facts of the case, that has been proved, but some dingbat reporter got hold of that story and tried to make something out of it. Read the HarryFarrell book, "Swift Justice" too, it was somewhat accurate but still only got about half of the facts straight. One of my friends 95 years young & sharp as a tack, was a student at Santa Clara during this time.Some guy got up at a rally, a friend or roommate of Brooke Hart,he believes, and just incited the crowd of 700 to 1000 students to an absolute frenzy while the Jesuit brothers all stood in back smiling with their arms folded, nodding in approval as the screams of the mob echoed for miles... "KILL THEM! LYNCH THE MURDERERS!" TheCalifornia national guard regiment barracked at the Presidio in SF, or state militia as it was known back then, was dispatched that morning from San Francisco but took a 6- hour coffee break at Murphy's Corners (Sunnyvale today) and didn't arrive until the wee small hours of the next morning, by then Thurmond had been cut down & re- hung inside the building... he had to be taken back outside & re- strung so the newspapers could get all the pictures. My friend says he was one of over 6,000 men is attendance, by his count. He said it took his mother a month to wash the tear gas & smoky smell off his clothes. Josef Goebbels used the film and pictures shot that day in his anti-American spiel.
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    • Are there any non-fiction books documeting the history of the Brooke L Hart kidnapping, murder, and lynching case?

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    • Release date
      • April 24, 2006 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • California, USA
    • Production company
      • Banana Peel Entertainment
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    • Budget
      • $2,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $119,290
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,164
      • Apr 11, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $119,290
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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