When the kidnapping of the scion of a wealthy retailer ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic, Depression-era San Jose, California, a principled young reporter takes on the powers-that-be to prevent the lynching of two men he believes are innocent.  Story inspired by the only eyewitness account of the actual kidnapping. All characters are fictional and have no resemblance to anyone living or dead.

A special director’s cut DVD version with two and one half hours of bonus material including personal interviews with the stars and principal crew, and a behind the scenes look at the actual making of the period noire film (98 Minutes, Indican Pictures, www.indicanpictures.com)

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Like the Ox Box Incident and Fury , a strong, unforgetable look
at mob rule...powerful, great period detail. A fascinating, unforgetable
Bay Area story of money, murder, muckraking and mobs.
-- Jan Wahl, KCBS Radio/KRON TV ( 3 out of 4 hats)

Peter Postlethwaite ( Distant Voices, Still Lives )
is extremely good…sharply done.
-- By Richard von Busack, San Jose Metro

John D. Murphy and Tim Boxell's fictionalized version of San Jose's
moment of eternal infamy: the 1933 lynchings in St. James Park.
Peter Postlethwaite is extremely good as a right-wing newspaper
editor who first covers up and then foments the atrocity.
-- San Jose Metro

Reminiscent of a Raymond Chandler novel. The costuming and
characterization in this film is so precise that one of those
reporters looks exactly like Herb Caen, and one could have been Stan
Delaplane. That is the texture of this work, very attentive to Bay Area
details. The cinematography is crisp and excellently detailed… taut and
well paced. All the film noir conventions are carefully put in place.
If you live in the Bay Area, it is an insight to our culture.
-- Albert Goodwyn, Bay Times

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