It takes more than guns to kill a man.
Original title
Matewan
Released
8/28/1987
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama, History
Production companies
Goldcrest, Cinecom Entertainment Group, Film Gallery, Red Dog Films, Winwood Productions
Budget
$4,000,000.00
Revenue
$1,680,358.00
Runtime
2hr 12min
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
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