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Matewan
Why this pick
Its coal-country labor struggle shares the grim industrial setting and patient, morally charged focus on workers confronting entrenched power.
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MOVIE1970 2h 4m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The Molly Maguires were a secret organization of Irish coal miners established in nineteenth century Pennsylvania to fight oppressive mineowners. Led by Jack Kehoe, they plant dynamite to destroy plant shafts and equipment, as real life Pinkerton National Detective Agency Detective James McParland is employed to infiltrate the Mollies.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Bethel Leslie
Mrs. Kehoe
Art Lund
Frazier
Philip Bourneuf
Father O'Connor
Anthony Costello
Frank McAndrew
Brendan Dillon
Mr. Raines
Frances Heflin
Mrs. Frazier
John Alderson
Jenkins
Malachy McCourt
Bartender