MURDER IN COWETA COUNTY - JOHNNY CASH - RARE DVD - 1983

Based on actual events from a 1948 Georgia Murder case and made into a TV movie in 1983, this story concerns a corrupt and ruthless Georgia landbaron, John Wallace, ( Andy Griffith ) who murders one of his workers who delivered moonshine without permission , and thinks he has gotten away with it. The local lawman, Sheriff Lamar Potts, ( Johnny Cash ) has other plans, but needs to gather enough evidence to prove his case against Wallace. Wallace figures without a body to find there will be no case so he makes his workers help him get the body out of the old well and burns it thinking that is the end of the matter; not counting on a famous Georgia tracker, Elsie Handcock who also put Wallace's grandfather away. June Carter Cash as the infamous MayHayle Lancaster who actually lived in Heard County Ga. and was known as a seer or witch by locals. From the book by Margaret Anne Barnes.



CAST:

June Carter Cash Mayhayle Lancaster Andy Griffith John Wallace Jo Henderson Earl Hindman J.H. Potts Cindi Knight Rick van Nutter Johnny Cash Lamar Potts Ed Van Nuys