GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI - Baldwin & Woods VHS - PAL - Time Coded

Description: ALEC BALDWIN WHOOPI GOLDBERG JAMES WOODS WILLIAM H. MACY and VIRGINIA MADSEN star in A film by Rob Reiner GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI VHS - PAL - LIKE NEW - Drama, History - Video Dealer Preview - M-rated - Time Coded on Screen - 130-minutes - Colour - 1996-release - Small box ** NOTE: Creased plastic on back, side of box - hardly noticeable - no impact on VHS play ** Medgar Evers is a black civil rights activist in Mississippi, who was gunned down by an assassin on June 12, 1963. This is later suspected that Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, is the murderer and he would be tried twice and both trials ended in hung juries. For more than 30 years, Evers' widow Myrlie has been trying to bring Beckwith to justice and she believes that she has what this takes to bring him to trial again. However, most of the evidence in the original trial have disappeared but assistant D.A. Bobby De Laughter decides to do what he can to help her despite being warned that this might hurt his political aspirations and the strain it's causing on his marriage. Based on fact and directed by Rob Reiner, Ghosts recounts the investigation, and retrial in 1994 - after two mistrials in the 60s - of Byron de la Beckwith for the racist shooting in 1963 of Medgar Evers, an NAACP activist. The film has gained renewed topicality with the recent conviction of another white supremacist for the Birmingham, Alabama, Baptist Church bombing, also in 1963. Alec Baldwin gives a solid, and sometimes stolid, performance in the central role of prosecuting DA, Bobby DeLaughter (pronounced DeLaw), himself from Mississippi's white uppercrust, whose marriage hits the rocks because of his pursuit of the case. James Woods, convincingly made up to look over 70 for most of the movie, is electrifying as the arrogant, hateful Beckwith. Whoopi Goldberg portrays Medgar's widow with a lot of dignity and even a touch of humour, but it would have been understandable if she had also displayed a little more bitterness. The movie is possibly not as powerful as Reiner hoped, partly no doubt because he was restricted by the facts. In particular, the retrial seems to have thrown up little or no new evidence, thus making the courtroom action less dramatic than in a fictional movie. Perhaps a greater criticism is that the intense focus on Baldwin / DeLaughter, who is in almost every scene, tends to turn him into the hero of the movie; whereas it should be Medgar Evers, who as a civil rights activist in one of the most bigoted areas of the USA deserves everyone's undying admiration. Despite the movie's flaws, it is gripping for most of its 130 minutes, and this was certainly a story worth telling.

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