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Jul 20, 2006 · Heavens Fall: Directed by Terry Green. With Timothy Hutton, David Strathairn, Leelee Sobieski, Anthony Mackie. Two young women accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South.
Heavens Fall is a 2006 American film based on the Scottsboro Boys incident of 1931. Plot. In the film, two young white women (portrayed by Leelee Sobieski and Azura Skye) accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South. Timothy Hutton stars as criminal defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz .
In the spring of 1931 nine black hoboes were pulled off an Alabama freight train and arrested for allegedly raping two young white women in a gondola car. Ranging in ages from twelve to twenty years, they were quickly tried and sentenced to the electric chair.
Feb 13, 2022 · Heavens Fall starring Anthony Mackie and Timothy Hutton. In 1931 a New York defense lawyer (Timothy Hutton) comes to the aid of nine black men accused of raping two white women in the South....
Jun 24, 2010 · From their arrest in 1931 to the release of the last Scottsboro defendant in 1950, the rights of nine young black men were violated. In this century, the world still faces many of the same racial...
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Heavens Fall features first-rate performances by Timothy Hutton as the Jewish New York lawyer who travels to Alabama to defend the 9 black men, David Strathairn as the the trial judge, and Bill Sage as the prosecutor.
Based on a true story, a New York attorney travels to Alabama in 1933 to defend nine young Black men accused of raping two white women.
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True story of Samuel Leibowitz who defended nine African American men in a re-trial after they were wrongfully accused and convicted of the rape of two Caucasian women.
