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Gideon's Trumpet

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Gideon's Trumpet
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1hr 44min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1980
Director:
Robert E. Collins
Distributor:
Acorn Media
Starring:
Henry Fonda, John Houseman, José Ferrer  ...more
Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier work in Grapes of Wrath and Twelve Angry Men, Henry Fonda played another social-protest role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV presentation Gideon's Trumpet. Clarence Earl Gideon (Fonda) is a poor, ill-tempered Florida handyman who is arrested for petty larceny in 1961. Unable to afford a lawyer, Gideon is sentenced to five years in prison. His treatment by the Florida judicial system, a clear violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, is brought to the attention of the ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam, AMG Review
Gideon's Trumpet is among the few films to treat the law as a serious subject. The real-life history behind this case is perhaps even more amazing than the film: occasional handy man and convicted petty thief Clarence Gideon sent a handwritten petition to the U.S. Supreme Court that forced a major, long-overdue change in the law. Unlike docudramas that present a simplistic view of their subjects, Full Review
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Henry Fonda
Clarence Earl Gideon
John Houseman
Chief Justice
José Ferrer
Abe Fortas
Fay Wray
Edna Curtis
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