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Matewan
Drama • History
74%
PG-13
8/28/19872h 12mTheatrical Release (US)
~ It takes more than guns to kill a man. ~
Overview:
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.
Director:
John Sayles
Status:
Released
Language:
English
Buget:
$4,000,000.00
Revenue:
$1,680,358.00
Key words:
- traitor
- based on true story
- west virginia
- gun battle
- racism
- preacher
- double cross
- labor organizer
- labor union
- coal mining
- workers union
- 1920s
- coal miner
- worker's rights
- miners strike
- mining company
- slit throat
- union struggle
- company town
- authoritarian company
- italian diaspora
- gun death
- hired goons
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