Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975 American TV film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan is a 1975 American two-part made-for-television drama film which dramatizes the events following the 1964 abduction and murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. In this, it is similar in theme to the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning, though some names and details were changed, and both productions pick up the approximate storyline of the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi.
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Don Whitehead Calvin Clements |
Directed by | Marvin J. Chomsky |
Starring | Ned Beatty John Beck |
Music by | Mundell Lowe |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Quinn Martin |
Producers | Philip Saltzman Russell Stoneham (supervising producer) Bernard R. Goodman (associate producer) |
Production locations | Bastrop, Texas San Marcos, Texas Sam Houston National Forest Coldspring, Texas Huntsville, Texas Groveton, Texas |
Cinematography | Jacques R. Marquette |
Editor | Jerry Young |
Running time | 215 minutes |
Production companies | Quinn Martin Productions Warner Bros. Television |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | February 20 (1975-02-20) ā February 21, 1975 (1975-02-21) |
Attack on Terror starred Ned Beatty, John Beck, Marlyn Mason, Billy Green Bush, Dabney Coleman, Virginia Gregg, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Sheila Larken, Hilly Hicks, and two M*A*S*H alumni, Wayne Rogers ("Trapper John") and Johnny Haymer ("Sgt. Zale").