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It takes more than guns to kill a man.
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
$4,000,000
$1,680,358
August 28, 1987
Cinecom Entertainment Group, Film Gallery
49 people
Chris Cooper
Joe Kenehan
Acting
James Earl Jones
'Few Clothes' Johnson
Acting
Mary McDonnell
Elma Radnor
Acting
Will Oldham
Danny Radnor
Acting
David Strathairn
Police Chief Sid Hatfield
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Ken Jenkins
Sephus Purcell
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Kevin Tighe
Bill Hickey
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Gordon Clapp
Tom Griggs
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Bob Gunton
C.E. Lively
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Jace Alexander
Hilllard Elkins
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Joe Grifasi
Fausto
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Nancy Mette
Bridey Mae Tolliver
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