

Lawman Without a Gun
DirectorJerrold Freedman
“Alabama's First Black Sheriff. America's Most Dangerous Job.”
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
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Cast

Louis Gossett Jr.
Tom Hayward

Clu Gulager
Marvin Tayman

Mary Alice
Minnie Hayward

Barry Brown
Fred Tayman

Barton Heyman
George Tayman

James McEachin
Harris McIntyre

Lonny Chapman
Sheriff Harvey Johnson
James McEacheon
Harris McIntyre

Helen Martin
Mrs. Cartwright

John Crawford
Sgt. Hunt

John Ashton
1st State Trooper

Burton Gilliam
Rev. Farrell
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