Trouble Comes to Town

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Trouble Comes to Town

1973

1h 13m

8.0(1 votes)

Drama

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A Southern sheriff brings into his home a black juvenile delinquent, who is the son of the man who saved his life during the Korean War.

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6 members

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Lloyd Bridges

Sheriff Porter Murdock

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Pat Hingle

Cecil Tabor

Acting

Hari Rhodes

Horace Speare

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Janet MacLachlan

Naomi Speare

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Sheree North

Mrs. Murdock

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Joseph Bottoms

Billy Keith

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