Attica (film)

Attica
Directed by	Marvin J. Chomsky
Starring	Henry Darrow, Charles Durning, Joel Fabiani, Anthony Zerbe
Release dates	March 2, 1980
Running time	97 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English

Attica is a 1980 television film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky. It stars Morgan Freeman, Henry Darrow, Charles Durning, Joel Fabiani and Anthony Zerbe.^[1] It depicts the events leading up to and during the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility riot and the aftermath.

Cast

Henry Darrow as Herman Badillo
Charles Durning as Commissioner Russell Oswald
Joel Fabiani as Senator Gordon Conners
Morgan Freeman as Hap Richards
George Grizzard as Tom Wicker
Roger E. Mosley as Frank Green
Anthony Zerbe as William Kunstler

Nominations and Awards

The film was nominated for five Primetime Emmys and eventually won one (for Outstanding Directing, Marvin J. Chomsky). ^[2]

References

↑ http://allmovie.com/work/attica-3279
↑ IMDb, Attica

External links

Attica at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Marvin J. Chomsky

Assault on the Wayne (1971)
Evel Knievel (1971)
Mongo's Back in Town (1971)
Family Flight (1972)
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975)
Murph the Surf (1975)
Mackintosh and T.J. (1975)
Brinks: The Great Robbery (1976)
A Matter of Wife... And Death (1976)
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
Holocaust (1978)
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
Attica (1980)
My Body, My Child (1982)
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
I Was a Mail Order Bride (1982)
Tank (1984)
The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
Billionaire Boys Club (1987)
I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988)
Catherine the Great (1995)

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