Reel 1314

MISSISSIPPI BURNING. Gene Hackman and William Dafoe play FBI agents battling rednecks... (2 hrs., 10 min.)

MISSISSIPPI BURNING. Gene Hackman and William Dafoe play FBI agents battling rednecks, Klansmen and one another in a fictionalized account of the investigation into the June 1964 murders of three civil-rights workers in Mississippi. As the 1988 film opens, the three are missing, and the local sheriff tells agents Ward and Anderson (Dafoe and Hackman, pictured) that the activists had been in his jail the day they disappeared, but were released that night. While young, starry-eyed by-the-book Ward tries to poke holes in the sheriff's story, the veteran Anderson, himself a former Mississippi sheriff, doesn't because "if a sheriff in a little town like this says that's what happened, that's what happened." They have other differences. Ward admires those who believe that "some things are worth dying for." Anderson snaps back: "Some people down here feel some things are worth killing for!" And he thinks some rules are meant to be broken, if it helps solve the case. Rated R for violence and strong language, the film won an Oscar for cinematography and garnered six more nominations, including Best Picture. Director (Alan Parker) and Actor (Hackman). (2 hrs., 10 min.)

MISSISSIPPI BURNING. Gene Hackman and William Daloe play FBI agents battling rednecks. Kaneman and one another in a fictionalized account of the investigation into the June 1964 murders of three civil-rights workers in Mississippi. As the 1988 film opens, the three are missing, and the local sheriff tells agents Ward and Anderson (Caitoe and Hackman, pictured) that the activists had been in his jail the day they disappeared, but were released that night. While young, starchy, by-the-book Ward tries to poke holes in the sheriff's story, the veteran Anderson, himself a former Mississippi sherrif, doesn't because "if a sheriff in a little town like this says that's what happened, that's what happened." They have other differences. Ward admires those who believe that "some things are worth dying for." Anderson snaps back: "Some people down here feel some things are worth killing for!" And he thinks some rules are meant to be broken, if it helps solve the case. Rated R for violence and strong language, the film won an Oscar for cinematography and garnered six more nominations, including Best Picture. Director (Alan Parker) and Actor (Hackman). (2 hrs., 10 min.) Additional Cast Mrs. Pell Frances McDormand (Oscar nominee) Pell Brad Court Sheriff Stuckey Gailard Sartain Tilman J. Lee Erney Townley Stephen Tobolowsky