Infamous 1931 miscarriage of justice close to being reversed as state government considers law to allow for pardon
Sheila Washington vividly recalls the day she first learned about the terrible events that occurred in her small town in Alabama almost three decades before she was born. She was 17 years old and, rooting around for something beneath her bed, she discovered a dusty old book that bore the town's name in its title.
Scottsboro Boy was a memoir by Haywood Patterson, one of nine young black boys who in 1931 became entangled in one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice of the Jim Crow era. Wrongfully accused of raping two white girls, the nine came close to being lynched by an angry mob, were rushed to trial in front of an all-white jury, and ended up serving many years in jail, eight of them on death row.
Yet young Sheila Washington had...
Sheila Washington vividly recalls the day she first learned about the terrible events that occurred in her small town in Alabama almost three decades before she was born. She was 17 years old and, rooting around for something beneath her bed, she discovered a dusty old book that bore the town's name in its title.
Scottsboro Boy was a memoir by Haywood Patterson, one of nine young black boys who in 1931 became entangled in one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice of the Jim Crow era. Wrongfully accused of raping two white girls, the nine came close to being lynched by an angry mob, were rushed to trial in front of an all-white jury, and ended up serving many years in jail, eight of them on death row.
Yet young Sheila Washington had...
- 4/4/2013
- by Ed Pilkington
- The Guardian - Film News
The Movie Pool hears a discouraging word from the Home on the Range Blu-ray!
The Set-up
A cow (Roseanne Barr) tries to save her farm by tracking down an elusive cattle rustler.
Directed by Will Finn and John Sanford
The Delivery
Anyone remember Home on the Range? It's an animated Disney film from 2004. Already slipped your mind, eh? There's a reason for that. Home on the Range is perhaps Disney's most embarrassing animated effort since Song of the South. That's probably why you never see it in any Disney highlight reels anywhere.
Featuring perhaps the worst leading character in Disney history - a cow - the filmmakers managed to completely doom this project by having the character performed by the one person whose voice is a human rights violation: Roseanne Barr.
What....were....they....thinking? This film is carried by the vocal talents of an actress whose sound can unleash...
The Set-up
A cow (Roseanne Barr) tries to save her farm by tracking down an elusive cattle rustler.
Directed by Will Finn and John Sanford
The Delivery
Anyone remember Home on the Range? It's an animated Disney film from 2004. Already slipped your mind, eh? There's a reason for that. Home on the Range is perhaps Disney's most embarrassing animated effort since Song of the South. That's probably why you never see it in any Disney highlight reels anywhere.
Featuring perhaps the worst leading character in Disney history - a cow - the filmmakers managed to completely doom this project by having the character performed by the one person whose voice is a human rights violation: Roseanne Barr.
What....were....they....thinking? This film is carried by the vocal talents of an actress whose sound can unleash...
- 7/31/2012
- by feeds@themoviepool.com (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
The early 2000s weren't very kind to Disney's animated films. Although I liked many of the movies they released at the time, they didn't seem to resonate with audiences and gain that "instant" classic badge of honor that many of the studios works like Aladdin and The Lion King earned in the 1990s. Disney decided it was time to release a couple of those movies from the 2000s on Blu-ray and Home on the Range is one of them.
In the movie, three cows from different walks of life embark on a journey to capture an outlaw and collect the reward. The reward is exactly the amount of money they need to save the farm they live on from a greedy land grabber intent on buying up all the property in that area. They partner up with different animals along the way and battle others to keep their home.
Home on the Range...
In the movie, three cows from different walks of life embark on a journey to capture an outlaw and collect the reward. The reward is exactly the amount of money they need to save the farm they live on from a greedy land grabber intent on buying up all the property in that area. They partner up with different animals along the way and battle others to keep their home.
Home on the Range...
- 7/12/2012
- by feeds@themoviepool.com (Eric Shirey)
- Cinelinx
Home on the Range
Written and directed by Will Finn and John Sanford
Expectations are a dangerous thing, but what’s even more dangerous sometimes is living up to them. In 2004, before John Lasseter and Ed Catmull joined the Walt Disney Company in a more official capacity than just running Pixar, the Walt Disney Feature Animation department was in dire straits. Well, the straits were dire only if you considered yourself a fan of hand-drawn animation. See, the 45th animated film in the Disney canon, Home on the Range was going to be the last hand-drawn animated film released by the company, at least for a long while. (The trend would be reversed in 2009, with The Princess and the Frog.)
Though there had been a few gaps in between movies for the Disney canon over the years, none were as long as the draught between 2004 and 2009 of no Disney hand-drawn features.
Written and directed by Will Finn and John Sanford
Expectations are a dangerous thing, but what’s even more dangerous sometimes is living up to them. In 2004, before John Lasseter and Ed Catmull joined the Walt Disney Company in a more official capacity than just running Pixar, the Walt Disney Feature Animation department was in dire straits. Well, the straits were dire only if you considered yourself a fan of hand-drawn animation. See, the 45th animated film in the Disney canon, Home on the Range was going to be the last hand-drawn animated film released by the company, at least for a long while. (The trend would be reversed in 2009, with The Princess and the Frog.)
Though there had been a few gaps in between movies for the Disney canon over the years, none were as long as the draught between 2004 and 2009 of no Disney hand-drawn features.
- 1/6/2012
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
We don’t cover a whole lot of original TV movies here on the site, but I just had to cover this one. The USA Network has greenlit an original, stand-alone movie called “Certain Prey” starring Mark Harmon, who will be moonlighting as Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport, the main character in novelist John Sanford’s series of “Prey” books. If the first movie is a hit, and it’s unlikely that it wouldn’t be, given Harmon’s popularity via the “NCIS” show, expect to see more in the series, of which there are 20 titles in all. Back in my crime novel consuming days, Sanford’s “Prey” novels were pretty good stuff, and his Lucas Davenport was a whip-smart cop not entirely against getting things done outside the law. But as with all novel franchises, the series sort of petered out for me after a while and became too routine,...
- 3/3/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Today, Sandford & Son made history in 1972 when it debuted. It was the first show since The Amos and Andy Show to feature an all-African-American cast. The show was actually based on a popular British sitcom called Steptoe and Son. Television producers Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin “Americanized” the show by recasting the leads with African-Americans. During four of its six seasons, it garnered higher ratings than any other NBC prime-time series.
The sitcom starred Redd Foxx (whose real name was John Sanford) as Fred Sanford and Demond Wilson as his son, Lamont Sanford. Fred worked as a junk dealer, and Lamont was dedicated to helping his father.
The show marked the beginning of many black cast shows to follow including The Jeffersons, Good Times and What’s Happening. You can catch old episodes of the show on the TVLand cable channel.
Below is a clip of Fred meeting one of his all-time favorites,...
The sitcom starred Redd Foxx (whose real name was John Sanford) as Fred Sanford and Demond Wilson as his son, Lamont Sanford. Fred worked as a junk dealer, and Lamont was dedicated to helping his father.
The show marked the beginning of many black cast shows to follow including The Jeffersons, Good Times and What’s Happening. You can catch old episodes of the show on the TVLand cable channel.
Below is a clip of Fred meeting one of his all-time favorites,...
- 1/14/2011
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
I made another visit to The Numbers website today, and I've come back with another interesting list, this time of the biggest financial failures of all time, in terms of absolute money lost.
I should also preface the list with some additional information. The Numbers website based their figures on the fact that the studio only received 50 percent of the box office revenue, which is probably a fairly close estimation. In reality, studios do spend a lot of money on marketing, which is not reflected in the production budget. Moreover, studios do not receive 100 percent of the the box office revenue. It is my recollection that studios generally receive around 80 percent of the revenue for the first week or two, and the percentage decreases the longer a movie stays in the theater. This is why budget theaters exist: They can charge much less for ticket prices because they only have...
I should also preface the list with some additional information. The Numbers website based their figures on the fact that the studio only received 50 percent of the box office revenue, which is probably a fairly close estimation. In reality, studios do spend a lot of money on marketing, which is not reflected in the production budget. Moreover, studios do not receive 100 percent of the the box office revenue. It is my recollection that studios generally receive around 80 percent of the revenue for the first week or two, and the percentage decreases the longer a movie stays in the theater. This is why budget theaters exist: They can charge much less for ticket prices because they only have...
- 6/30/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
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