Murder in Coweta County (1983) on Netflix
Sheriff Lamar Potts keeps Coweta County, Georgia, free of unsolved felonies. Next door, John Wallace rules the Kingdom, a vast estate. Wallace chases a sharecropper into Potts's county.
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Plot summary
In 1948, Coweta County, Georgia, has no unsolved felonies on Sheriff Lamar Potts's record. In neighboring Meriwether County, John Wallace rules a vast estate called the Kingdom, where his power is absolute and the sheriff answers to him. Wilson Turner, a poor tenant sharecropper, is dismissed by Wallace after being allowed to make the liquor run; he and his wife and child are forced off their farm and his crops go unharvested. Turner steals one of Wallace's prized Guernsey cows. Caught in another county, he is brought back to Meriwether County and released from jail for lack of evidence. Wallace and three of his men wait outside, and Turner drives off with the gang in pursuit.
Cast
- Ed Van Nuysas Huddleston
- Jo Hendersonas Josephine Wallace
- Daniel Keyesas Elzie Hancock
- James Nealeas A. L. Henson
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Murder in Coweta County (1983)
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- The film is based on the real events of a murder that took place in Coweta County, Georgia, in April 1948.
- The film's credits note that Potts went on to serve as Sheriff of Coweta County for a total of 32 years.
