The Murder of Mary Phagan

The Murder of Mary Phagan
Genre	Crime Drama History
Written by	Jeffrey Lane (teleplay) George Stevens Jr.(teleplay)
Story by	Larry McMurtry
Directed by	William Hale
Starring	Jack Lemmon Richard Jordan
Theme music composer	Maurice Jarre
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	George Stevens Jr. (producer) Caroline Stevens (associate producer)
Cinematography	Nicholas D. Knowland
Editor(s)	John A. Martinelli
Production company(s)	Orion Pictures
Distributor	NBC
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	January 24, 1988

The Murder of Mary Phagan, a 1988 two-part American TV miniseries written by Larry McMurtry, produced by George Stevens, Jr., directed by William "Billy" Hale, starring Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey, made by Orion Pictures Corporation, and distributed by National Broadcasting Company (NBC), is a dramatization of the story of Leo Frank, a factory manager charged with and convicted of 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, destroying his own career in the process. In 1915 Frank was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a small group of prominent men of Marietta, Georgia. In addition to Lemmon and Spacey, the film features Rebecca Miller, Peter Gallagher, Charles Dutton, Richard Jordan, Cynthia Nixon, Dylan Baker and William H. Macy. Lemmon noted during a publicity appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson shortly before the miniseries was broadcast that the cast was the best with which he had ever worked.

The film was shot in Richmond, Virginia, extensively in Shockoe Bottom, with a running time of 251 minutes (over 4 hours), originally broadcast over two evenings.

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