The Phenix City Story
ALABAMA'S CITY OF SIN AND SHAME!
A gritty, docudrama-inflected crime noir about civic corruption and moral reckoning in a small Southern town, driven by the tension between a lawyer's idealism and his father's reluctant awakening.
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
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