The Shadow's Edge
Action · Crime
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Film / 1988
Mississippi Burning
Directed by
Alan Parker
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
The story
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Cast
Gene HackmanAgent Rupert Anderson
Willem DafoeAgent Alan Ward
Frances McDormandMrs. Pell
Brad DourifDeputy Clinton Pell
R. Lee ErmeyMayor Tilman
Gailard SartainSheriff Stuckey
Stephen TobolowskyTownley
Michael RookerFrank Bailey
Pruitt Taylor VinceLester Cowens
Badja DjolaAgent Monk
Kevin DunnAgent Bird
Frankie FaisonEulogist
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Thomas B. MasonJudge (as Tom Mason)
Geoffrey NaufftsGoatee
Rick ZieffPassenger
Christopher WhiteBlack Passenger
Gladys GreerHattie
Jake GipsonMose
Dianne LancasterWaitress
Stanley W. CollinsHollis
Daniel WinfordFennis
Marc ClementFloyd Swilley
Larry ShulerEarl Cooke
Stephen BridgewaterWesley Cooke
Bob PennyCurtis Foy
James F. MooreBarber
Park OverallConnie
Georgia F. WiseBeauty Parlor Woman 1
Lois AllenBeauty Parlor Woman 2
Barry Davis Jim, Sr.Choctaw Man
Dan DesmondTelevision Commentator (voice)
Darius McCraryAaron Williams
Lou WalkerVertis Williams
Billie Jean YoungMrs. Williams
Alisa R. PatrickChurch Soloist
Barbara GibsonChurch Soloist
Pat FunderburkPell Maid
Tobin BellAgent Stokes
Mark Jeffrey MillerFire Bomber
John P. FertittaT.V. Commentator
Charles FranzenInterviewer & Reporter
Tonea StewartMrs. Walker
Robert F. ColesberryCameraman
Frederick ZolloReporter
Ron De RoxtraReporter
Doug JacksonReporter
Gary MoodyReporter
Robert EricksonReporter
Ed GeldartFire Bomber
Mert HatfieldFire Bomber
James EricFire Bomber
Daniel ChapmanAgent MacMillan
Rick WashburnAgent Brodsky
Robert GlaudiniAgent Nash
Ken MageeAgent Reilly
Paul HendersonLocal #1 (uncredited)
Ralph Pruitt VaughnPeckerwood (uncredited)
Jesse Merle SpeaksPecan Vendor
Simeon TeagueObie Walker
Brenda DunlapMrs. Cowens
E.A. ThrallAgent Tubbs
Kenneth MageeAgent Reilly
Zeke DavidsonLawyer
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