The Sheriff's Children
Based on the acclaimed story by Charles Chesnutt published in 1889, "The Sheriff's Children" dramatizes the conflict between duty and family, as a sheriff guarding a prisoner from a lynch mob faces a crisis of conscience.
Based on the acclaimed story by Charles Chesnutt published in 1889, "The Sheriff's Children" dramatizes the conflict between duty and family, as a sheriff guarding a prisoner from a lynch mob faces a crisis of conscience.
Joel Ferren
Angry mobster
Matt Hester
Slade
William Kephart
Sheriff
Ellen Magee
Polly
William Anthony Sebastian Rose II
Prisoner
Paul Strain
McDonnell
Elester Wilkerson
Sam
Jim Wolfe
Horace
Based on the acclaimed story by Charles Chesnutt published in 1889, "The Sheriff's Children" dramatizes the conflict between duty and family, as a sheriff guarding a prisoner from a lynch mob faces a crisis of conscience.
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