The liberation of Lord Byron Jones : a screenplay / by Stirling Silliphant and Jesse Hill Ford ; from the novel by Jesse Hill Ford ; director, William Wyler ; producer, Ronald Lubin. 1969.

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The liberation of Lord Byron Jones : a screenplay / by Stirling Silliphant and Jesse Hill Ford ; from the novel by Jesse Hill Ford ; director, William Wyler ; producer, Ronald Lubin. 1969.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/192030171

Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, seeks out legal representation to divorce his wife, who is pregnant after having an affair with a white police officer. To prevent his affair from being dragged into a court of law, the police officer violently takes matters into his own hands.

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Silliphant, Stirling, 1918-1996

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Silliphant was born on Jan. 16, 1918 in Detroit, MI; graduated magna cum laude from Univ. of So. CA, 1938; worked in advertising and promotion for Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox until 1952; produced a few films in the 1950s before becoming a screenwriter for both feature films and television; his successful television series include Naked city and Route 66; films include The Joe Louis story (1953), In the heat of the night (1967), Charly (1968), Marlowe (1969), The Poseidon adventure (1972), a...

Falana, Lola

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Ford, Jesse Hill

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Jesse Hill Ford was an American writer, perhaps best known for his novel The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones. Born in Alabama and raised in Tennessee, he was educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida, taking time off to serve in the Korean War. Devoting himself to writing, he gained attention for his short stories and wrote several well-received novels; his realistic style and Southern settings evoked William Faulkner. His fiction elicited racial tension, and he and his fami...

Browne, Roscoe Lee

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Tony and Emmy award winning theatre, film and television actor Roscoe Lee Browne was born on May 2, 1922 in Woodbury, New Jersey. He attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania until 1942, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he graduated from Lincoln in 1946. During this time, he studied French through Middlebury College's summer language program. He received his master's degree from Columbia University, then taught briefly at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania....

Lubin, Ronald

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Columbia Pictures Corporation

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Wyler, William, 1902-1981

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Moving-picture director; interviewee d. 1981. From the description of Reminiscences of William J. Wyler : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569553 Willy Wyler was born July 1, 1902 in Mulhouse Alsace-Lorraine; he traveled to America at the invitation of cousin Carl Laemmle, 1920, and became a US citizen, 1928; worked in the publicity dept. at Universal, NY and transferred to Universal City, Hollywood, 1921, where he app...