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Director
  
Marvin J. Chomsky

Music director
  
Mundell Lowe

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Calvin Clements Sr.

Country
  
United States

Release date
  
February 20, 1975

Writer
  
Calvin Clements Sr., Don Whitehead (book)

Cast
  
Ned Beatty
,
John Beck
,
Rip Torn
(Glen Tuttle)

Similar movies
  
Related Marvin J Chomsky movies

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan is a 1975 two-part television movie, which dramatized the events following the 1964 disappearance and murder of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi. In this, it is similar in theme to the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning, though some names and details were changed, and both productions pick up the approximate storyline of the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi.

Attack on Terror starred Ned Beatty, John Beck, Marlyn Mason, Billy Green Bush, Dabney Coleman, Virginia Gregg, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Sheila Larken, Hilly Hicks, and two M*A*S*H alumni, Wayne Rogers ("Trapper John") and Johnny Haymer ("Sgt. Zale").

Selected cast

  • Ned Beatty as Deputy Sheriff Ollie Thompson (fictionalized representation of Cecil Price)
  • John Beck as George Greg
  • George Grizzard as Attorney Clay
  • Rip Torn as Imperial Wizard Glen Tuttle (fictionalized representation of Sam Bowers)
  • Wayne Rogers as FBI Special Agent Don Foster (fictionalized representation of John Proctor)
  • Dabney Coleman as FBI Special Agent Paul Mathison
  • Andrew Duggan as FBI Inspector Ryder (fictionalized representation of Joseph Sullivan)
  • James Hampton as Harry Dudley (KKK Member)
  • Billy Green Bush as Dave Keene (KKK Member)
  • L.Q. Jones as Officer Roy Ralstop (KKK Member)
  • Mills Watson as Dee Malcom (KKK Member)
  • Peter Strauss as Ben Jacobs (fictionalized representation of assassination victim Michael Schwerner)
  • Hilly Hicks as Charles Gilmore (fictionalized representation of assassination victim James Chaney)
  • Andrew Parks as Steven Bronson (fictionalized representation of assassination victim Andrew Goodman)
  • Ed Flanders as Ralph Paine (fictionalized representation of Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights John Doar)
  • Luke Askew as Aaron Cord (fictionalized representation of Alton Wayne Roberts)
  • Geoffrey Lewis as Sheriff Ed Duncan (fictionalized representation of Lawrence Rainey)
  • Paulene Myers as Mrs. Gilmore (fictionalized representation of Fannie Lee Chaney)
  • Sheila Larken as Linn Jacobs (fictionalized representation of Rita Schwerner)

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