Naomi Tirosh requests: > Looking for American films dealing with capital punishment from 1900-2000. Depending on how loosely you mean "dealing with," here are some: Edison's ELECTROCUTING AN ELEPHANT Griffith's WAY DOWN EAST TWO SECONDS, with Edward G. Robinson Lloyd Bacon's PICTURE SNATCHER (1933), with Cagney MANHATTAN MELODRAMA--the last film John Delllinger saw ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES Fritz Lang's FURY THE OX-BOW INCIDENT George Stevens' A PLACE IN THE SUN, from Dreiser's AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY COMPULSION, the courtroom drama based on the Leopold and Loeb case IN COLD BLOOD THE TRAVELLING EXECUTIONER, with Stacy Keach DANIEL, from Doctorow's novel based on the Rosenbergs Erroll Morris's THE THIN BLUE LINE and MR. DEATH and, of course, DEAD MAN WALKING and THE GREEN MILE A couple of TV movies: THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK, about the only GI executed for desertion in World War II THE LINDBERG KIDNAPPING CASE THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG, from Norman Mailer's book One final mention: There's a brief scene in Troell's THE NEW LAND portraying Mankato's dubious claim to fame as the site of the largest (legal) mass execution in American history, when 36 Dakota Sioux warriors were hanged in 1864 following the Dakota Uprising. (Originally more than 100 were sentenced, but Lincoln commuted those.) Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------------------- Donald F. Larsson English Department, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu