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Matewan

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and the gun thugs of the notorious Baldwin-Felts detective agency. Black and Italian miners, brought in by the company to break the strike, are caught between the two forces. UMWA organizer and dual-card Wobbly Joe Kenehan determines to bring the local, Black, and Italian groups together. While Kenehan and his story are fictional, the setting and the dramatic climax are historical; Sid Hatfield, Cabell C. Testerman, C. E. Lively and the Felts brothers were real-life participants, and 'Few Clothes' is based on a character active several years previously.

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Info about Matewan

Studio(s): Cinecom Entertainment Group, Film Gallery

Originally Released: United States, Aug 28, 1987

Production Country: United States

Box Office Gross: $1,680,358.00

Budget: $4,000,000.00

Genres:Drama, History

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