Riverbend (1989)

Directors

Sam Firstenberg

Cast

Margaret Avery, Steve James

The story

Set in 1966, Riverbend opens with Major Samuel Quinton (Steve James) and fellow Black Vietnam soldiers Tony Marx (Julius Tennon) and Butch Turner (Alex Morris) being transported to face a military court-martial for disobeying an order to destroy a village filled with civilians. Knowing they will not receive a fair trial, the men escape and make their way across the South. They eventually find refuge in Riverbend, Georgia, a small segregated town ruled by a brutal sheriff (Tony Frank) and a corrupt judge.

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