Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story Movie Review 1999

Whitfield stars in this true story as Lori Jackson, a 1980s civil rights activist who takes on the case of Marine Corporal Lindsay Scott (Yearwood), the only black in the battalion, who is falsely accused of raping a white officer's wife. When he is convicted on circumstantial evidence, Jackson secures a new trial, which exacts a high price on her own life. Based on the book "Dangerous Evidence" by Ellis A. Cohen.

Distribution

Xenon Entertainment, 1440 9th St., Santa Monica, CA 90401, Phone: (310)451-5510, Toll-free: 800-829-1913, Fax: (310)395-4058, URL: http://www.xenonpictures.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Period Piece: 1980s, Military: Marines, Justice Prevails...?, Order in the Court, African America, Civil Rights, The Wrong Man

Screenplay

Sterling Anderson

Cast

Lynn Whitfield, Richard Lineback, Richard Yearwood, Peter MacNeill, Erica Luttrell, Barbara Mamabolo, Geordie Johnson, Bruce Gray

Director

Sturla Gunnarsson

Music

Jonathan Goldsmith