The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)

Directors

William Wyler

Cast

Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana

The story

L.B. Jones, a wealthy African-American funeral director in fictional Somerton, Tennessee, seeks legal representation from the local law firm run by Oman Hedgepath and his newlywed nephew Steve Mundine. Jones is seeking a divorce from his considerably younger wife Emma, alleging she had an affair with white police officer Willie Joe Worth, whom he suspects is the biological father of her unborn child.

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