Undercover With The KKK (1979)

Undercover With The KKK (1979)

„Undercover With The KKK“ is a 1979 drama film directed by Barry Shear. The screenplay by Lane Slate is based on the 1976 autobiography „My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan“ by Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.

This fascinating biography of Gary Thomas Rowe, a young man recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the KKK around the time of Martin Luther King's march on Montgomery, stars Don Meredith, James Wainwright and Slim Pickens.

Cast:

• Don Meredith – Gary Thomas „Tom“ Rowe Jr.
• Ed Lauter – Raleigh Porter
• Clifton James – Jimmy Eakin
• Albert Salmi – Lester Mitchell
• Michele Carey – Mary Beth Barker
• Lance LeGault – Weasel
• Margaret Blye – Billie Ruth Rowe
• Edward Andrews – Pat Murray
• Slim Pickens – Yancey Hicks
• James Wainwright – T.J. Barker
• Don „Red’ Barry – Ben Wright
• Ron Trice – Roscoe Cobb
• Earl Montgomery – Dr. Sheffield
• John Lawrence – Captain Collins
• Cliff Emmich – Orville
• Michael Meredith – Tatum
• Jim Mansinne – Herb Stitt
• Stephen Bradley – Galvin
• Dixie K. Wade – Waitress
• Victor Hall – Kevin Ryan
• Jim Haynie – First Officer
• Peter Scribner – Jury Foreman
• Carl Lumbly – Reverend Lowell
• Blair Leatherwood – Counter Boy
• Robert Stack – Narrator
• Don Coughlan – Quinland
• Earl Felch – Durwood
• Dan Kemp – The Judge
• Marsh McCandless – Sam Jones
• Julius Varnado – Jim

„Undercover With The KKK“ ist ein Filmdrama aus dem Jahr 1979 unter der Regie von Barry Shear. Das Drehbuch von Lane Slate basiert auf der 1976 erschienenen Autobiografie „My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan“ von Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.

Diese faszinierende Biografie von Gary Thomas Rowe, einem jungen Mann, der vom FBI rekrutiert wurde, um den KKK zur Zeit von Martin Luther Kings Marsch auf Montgomery zu infiltrieren, zeigt Don Meredith, James Wainwright und Slim Pickens.