MISSISSIPPI BURNING

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

PRINCIPAL CAST

GENE HACKMANAgent Rupert Anderson

WILLEM DAFOEAgent Alan Ward

FRANCES MCDORMANDMrs. Pell

BRAD DOURIFDeputy Clinton Pell

R. LEE ERMEYMayor Tilman

GAILARD SARTAINSheriff Stuckey