Fools' Parade (1971)

Directors

Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast

James Stewart, George Kennedy, Anne Baxter, Strother Martin, Kurt Russell, Mike Kellin, William Windom, Katherine Cannon, Morgan Paull, David Huddleston, Robert Donner, James Lee Barrett, Dort Clark, Kitty Jefferson Doepken, Richard Carl

The story

In 1935, the one-eyed murderer, Mattie Appleyard, who refers to his obviously unmatched glass eye with the persona, "Tighe", bank robber Lee Cottrill, and a young convict named Johnny Jesus are released on the same day from the West Virginia State Penitentiary, located in the fictional town of Glory. Appleyard is issued a check for $25,452.32 for his 40 years of prison work, a substantial amount during the Great Depression. Appleyard and Cottrill have long been planning to establish and work together in their own independent retail grocery store, to be located in a distant West Virginia coal camp community where, at the time, was served…

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