Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story

• Director: John Korty
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Courtroom Drama, Crime Drama
• Themes: Righting the Wronged, Fighting the System, Lawyers
• Main Cast: Corbin Bernsen
• Release Year: 1991
• Country: US
• Run Time: 96 minutes

Plot

Corbin Bernsen, fresh out of LA Law, plays a real-life attorney in Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story. As Dees, Bernsen goes head to head with the Ku Klux Klan in the Alabama of the 1980s. Despite having his name included on the "hit list" of every wacko white supremacist in the Nation, Dees manages to break the back of the KKK is his own particular corner of the world. Line of Fire is elaborately produced and hits all the right emotional buttons, but falls short of perfection thanks to stereotypical villains and excessive melodrama. The film was first telecast on Martin Luther King Day in 1991. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Angela Bassett - Pat; Corbin Bernsen - Morris Dees; Beau Billingslea - Hal; Conni Marie Brazelton - Reporter; David Gale - Benny Hays; Hal Havins - Teddy Kysar; John M. Jackson - Curtis; Duke Moosekian - Richard Cohen; James Parks - Tiger Knowles; Wiley M. Pickett - Henry Hays; Roger Rook - David Andrews; James Staley - Welch; Harold Sylvester - Gilbert; Le Tuan - Col. Min; Ann Weldon - Mrs. Donald; Roger Steffens - Reporter; Casey Biggs; Sandy Bull - Stanton; John Nesci - Alan Berg; Jenny Lewis - Ellie; Wayne Tippet - Tillman

Credit

Ross Brown - Casting, Mary West - Casting, Faye Sloan - Costume Designer, John Korty - Director, Jim Oliver - Editor, Robert A. Papazian - Executive Producer, James G. Hirsch - Executive Producer, Billy Goldenberg - Composer (Music Score), Arthur B. Rubinstein - Composer (Music Score), Rose Librizzi - Makeup, Mark Haskins - Production Designer, Hal Galli - Production Manager, Hal Galli - Producer, James G. Hirsch - Screenwriter

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