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The Murder of Mary Phagan

The Murder of Mary Phagan, a 1987 two-part American TV miniseries made by Orion Pictures and distributed by NBC. It has a running time of 251 minutes. It is a dramatization of the story of Leo Frank, a factory manager charged and convicted with murdering a 13-year-old girl, a factory worker named Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913. The trial was sensational and controversial. After Frank's legal appeals had failed, the governor of Georgia in 1915 commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1915 Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a small group of prominent men of Marietta, Georgia

1988 |1 Season  | 2h 0m |  Drama, Crime

Cast

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Jack Lemmon

Gov. John Slaton

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Richard Jordan

Hugh Dorsey

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Robert Prosky

Tom Watson

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Peter Gallagher

Leo Frank

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Kathryn Walker

Sally Slaton

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Kevin Spacey

Wes Brent

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Paul Dooley

William Burns

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Charles S. Dutton

Jim Conley

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Cynthia Nixon

Doreen

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Kenneth Welsh

Luther Rosser

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William H. Macy

Randy

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Dylan Baker

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Daniel Benzali

Coroner

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Nesbitt Blaisdell

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Beeson Carroll

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Loretta Devine

Annie Maude Carter

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Barbara Eda-Young

Mrs. Phagan

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Richard Hamilton

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Brent Jennings

Newt Lee

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Jordan Marder

Alonzo

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Heather McAdam

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William Newman

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Bill Raymond

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Fred Sadoff

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Raynor Scheine

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Brian Smiar

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Kate McGregor-Stewart

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Jimmie Ray Weeks

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Nicholas Wyman

Lund

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Ron Weyand

Minister (uncredited)

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Creator

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Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

NBC