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4 days ago · Renowned actor James Earl Jones died earlier this month at age 93. Jones was part of the cast of the 1987 John Sayles film “Matewan,” which was shot in Thurmond, West Virginia. Curtis Tate spoke to David Wohl, who at the time was an acting teacher at West Virginia State and asked Jones to come speak to his students.
3 days ago · One such character that Jones played was Few Clothes Johnson in John Sayles’ Matewan. Released in 1987, the movie depicts the conflict between coal companies and miners in West Virginia’s Matewan county during the early 1920s. Jones’ character Few Clothes was the leader of a group of black miners who came to the region looking for work.
19 hours ago · Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan, the site of the infamous Matewan Massacre, holds a significant place in labor history. Its preserved sites tell the story of the coal miners' struggle. Matewan Depot Replica Museum: This museum offers exhibits on the town’s history, including the Matewan Massacre.
4 days ago · Claudine is taken by Roop quite quickly, whose convivial, courteous spontaneity is just the catnip for her. On their first date, the pair pragmatically forgoes all the preliminaries and feelers. It only takes a hot bath and some fry chicken for two adults to have a good time in private, that shows the acute pecuniary husbandry of the marginalized.
3 days ago · Matewan, 1987 John Sayles brings the Matewan spark that began the coalfield war to the screen. Intense characters flesh out this story: Baldwin muscle for the Stone Mountain mine owners, union organizers, spies, the miners, and scabs.
5 days ago · His films as a director included Lianna (1983); Baby, It’s You (1983); Matewan (1987), a drama about coal miners fighting to form a union in the 1920s; The Brother from Another Planet (1984), a science-fiction comedy that lacerates discrimination; City of Hope (1991); Passion Fish (1992), which earned Sayles an Academy Award nomination for a ...
1 day ago · Mufasa is a fictional character in Disney 's The Lion King franchise. A wise, benevolent lion, the character first appears in the animated film The Lion King (1994) as King of the Pride Lands and devoted father to Simba, who he is grooming to inherit the throne. Mufasa is murdered by his younger brother, Scar, who kills Mufasa to usurp rulership.
