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A 1948 murder case in Georgia involving a wealthy landowner and a sharecropper. The events inspired a book and a TV movie starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith.
A crime drama based on a true story of a power-hungry Georgia landowner who kills a man and faces a legendary sheriff. Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith star in this IMDb-rated 7.4 movie with trivia, reviews and more.
- (794)
- Crime, Drama, Western
- Gary Nelson
- 1983-02-15
Oct 7, 2022 · In 1948, in rural Georgia, Coweta County is watched over by its legendary, indomitable Sheriff Lamar Potts (Johnny Cash). No felony had ever gone unsolved wh...
- 97 min
- 867.6K
- Absolute Westerns
Jul 22, 2018 · Atkins produced the 1983 film, “Murder in Coweta County,” based on the true story of the 1948 murder of a sharecropper tenant, then-Coweta County Sheriff Lamar Potts’ investigation and the trial and conviction of wealthy landowner John Wallace.
Sep 3, 2021 · Learn about the true crime story of a 1948 murder in Georgia and the works inspired by it, a book and a TV movie. The book by Margaret Anne Barnes was published in 1976 and the movie starred Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith in 1983.
Listen to the true story of John Wallace, a powerful moonshiner who murdered a man in Coweta County, Georgia in 1948. Learn how he was prosecuted by the Coweta County Sheriff and faced the full extent of the law.
Apr 28, 2018 · John Wallace had misplaced the corpse of Wilson Turner, a sharecropper he had murdered on April 20, 1948, in retaliation for the theft of two of Wallace’s cows.
