Free, White and 21 (1963)
You must see it from the beginning.
A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.
- Date of release
- 1963-04-24
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Larry Buchanan
Casting
- Frederick O'Neal — Ernie Jones
- Annalena Lund — Greta Mae Hansen
- George Edgley — Judge
- Johnny Hicks — Prosecuting Attorney Atkins
- George R. Russell — Defense Attorney Tyler
- Hugh Crenshaw — Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
- Bill McGhee — Witness
- Miles Middough — Witness
- James 'Ike' Altgens — Witness
- Jonathan Ledford — Witness
- Ted Mitchell — Witness
- Jack Dunlop — Witness
Interesting facts
Free, White and 21 is a 1963 movie by self-proclaimed "schlockmeister" director Larry Buchanan. It was based on the true story of the controversial trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman in Dallas, Texas in the 1960s. The title is a version of the archaic American idiomatic phrase "free, white, and twenty-one", which means "beholden to no one".
Production
The movie was based on a true story about an English girl who stayed at a motel owned by Tony Davis, a black disc jockey. She later claimed Davis raped her and he was arrested. Davis was a friend of Buchanan, and agreed to work with him on the film even before the trial concluded. Before the film was completed, Buchanan showed an assembly cut to James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z.
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