Chiefs - 4-DVD Box Set

Chiefs - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
490 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jerry London

Written By:
Stuart Woods
Robert W. Lenski

Actors:
Charlton Heston ..... Hugh Holmes
Keith Carradine ..... Foxy Funderburke
Stephen Collins ..... Billy Lee
Brad Davis ..... Sonny Butts
Tess Harper ..... Carrie Lee
Paula Kelly ..... Liz Watts
Wayne Rogers ..... Will Henry Lee
Paul Sorvino ..... Sheriff Skeeter Willis
Victoria Tennant ..... Trish Lee
Billy Dee Williams ..... Tyler Watts (aka Joshua Cole)
Lane Smith ..... Hoss Spence
Kaiulani Lee ..... Mrs. Butts
Novella Nelson ..... Nellie Cole
Danny Glover ..... Marshall Peters
Leo Burmester ..... Emmett Spence

Synopsis:

The miniseries is set in the fictional town of Delano, Georgia, which appears to be loosely based on Manchester, Georgia, situated at the base of Pine Mountain. The story begins in 1924 as town patriarch Hugh Holmes (Charlton Heston), whose character intermittently narrates the story, decides that the town has grown large enough to require a jail and a full-time police officer. Shortly after the town appoints failed farmer Will Henry Lee (Wayne Rogers) its first police chief, the townspeople become alarmed by a series of disappearances of young men and boys. The story follows three generations of Delano police chiefs - Will Henry Lee (Rogers), Sonny Butts (Brad Davis), and Tyler Watts (Billy Dee Williams) - as they investigate the crimes. Upright lawman Will Henry Lee is the first to discover that well-to-do loner "Foxy" Funderburke (Keith Carradine) is responsible for the crimes, but he is mistakenly shot by a delirious man before he can arrest the well-regarded local. Funderburke hovers in the background while the dying Lee tries to gasp out the truth about Funderburke's guilt, but Lee's wife fails to understand. Despite the feverish delirium that caused him to believe that the police chief was trying to kill his son, the man who shot Lee is executed because he is a black man.

This TV miniseries concerns a Southern village where the murder of a boy has puzzled three different police chiefs since the 1920s. By the time that a black sheriff (Billy Dee Williams) takes over in 1962, he might have just enough evidence to find the culprit.

Three generations of police chiefs for a southern town go about their jobs while a serial murderer operates.

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