Act of Vengeance
His was an act of defiance. Theirs was an act of vengeance.
A tense, morally weighted drama about labor corruption and political defiance in 1970s West Virginia, grounded in real institutional conflict and the threat of violence.
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
Essence
Ensemble
Charles Bronson
Joseph 'Jock' Yablonski
Ellen Burstyn
Margaret Yablonski
Wilford Brimley
Tony Boyle
Hoyt Axton
Silous Huddleston
Robert Schenkkan
Paul Gilly
Ellen Barkin
Annette Gilly
Maury Chaykin
Claude Vealey
Caroline Kava
Charlotte Yablonski
Peg Murray
Ellen Rogers
William Newman
Ezra Morgan
Alan North
Albert Pass
Raynor Scheine
Terrance Madden
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