Louis Gossett Jr.
Walter Osgood
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With Louis Gossett Jr., Joseph Mazzello, James Greene, Don Swayze. Based on a true story. A poor black sharecropper strikes up an unlikely friendship with a hostile young white boy - but their budding friendship is threatened by a brutal red-neck sheriff.
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- Drama, Western
- Jeff Bleckner
- 1995-01-01
Jan 1, 1995 · Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been cleared by the overwhelming white supremacist beliefs.
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- (1)
- Jeff Bleckner
- PG
Enter Charlie, a little boy who's father is anything but. Osgood befriends Charlie and their relationship grows from there. It takes a Klan gathering at Osgoods house where things begin to change. The Sheriff is suspicious that Chalie has taken up with Walter, even though Charlie deigns it he knows.
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A poor black sharecropper strikes up an unlikely friendship with a hostile young white boy - but their budding friendship is threatened by a brutal red-neck sheriff. In a town ruled by racial prejudice, only a boy had the courage to take a stand. Oscar winner Louis Gossett, Jr.
A black farmer in an Ozark Mountain town during the Depression finds himself compelled to care for a hostile 10-year-old boy who has been abandoned by his drunken, racist sharecropper father.
