LIFE & CRIMES OF WILLIAM PALMER - DVD

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: In the mid-1990s, two inmates bury the burned bodies of two lifers at Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm; a third old-timer relates their story. They'd served 65 years for a murder they didn't commit, framed by a local sheriff while buying moonshine whiskey for a Manhattan club owner to whom they owed money. In flashbacks we see this odd couple thrown together (Ray is a fast-talking con man, and Claude is a serious man about to start work as a bank teller), the loss of Ray's watch (sterling silver, from his daddy), the murder and trial, the hardships of Parchman, and the love-hate relationship of Claude and Ray as they spend 65 years bickering and looking for a way to escape.
• Cast: Keith Allen, Jayne Ashbourne, Judy Cornwell, Richard Coyle, Christian Burgess, Dan Armour, Dominic Borrelli, Freddie Jones, Matthew Devitt, Charlotte Emmerson, Chloe Newsome, Stacy Davies, Ben Miles, Eileen O'Brien, Glyn Dilley, Daryl Fishwick, Peter Schofield, Tim Stern, James Warrior, Stephen Moore, Christopher Lucas, John Owens, Linda Bassett, John Bleasdale, Nicola Bolton, Ron Donachie, Henry Easterby, Bill Monks, Thomas Wheatley, Paul Brooke, Michael Elwyn, Aubrey Phillips, Ralph Nossek, Bill Rogers, Michael Atkinson, Ben Crompton, Paul Arlington, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Peter Lorenzelli, Michael Murphy, Anthony Schaeffer, Michael Wardle, Angela Catherall, Jemma Carlisle, Alan Dossor, Glenn Chandler
• Director: Alan Dossor
• Runtime: 2:40
• Company: BFS Entertainment, Granada, Yorkshire Television, WGBH
• Media Format: Series