It's kinda sad. Poor Frank, he was blamed and murdered by stupid, ignorant rednecks.There're so many ignorant southerns who still hate Jews, even today. They're just REDNECK!!! They used to hate Jews, now they hate Muslims. They're good Christians, and they have to hate and blame somebody else. Did Jesus ever hate anybody??? Shame on you, rednecks!!!!

This is not just an invented drama; this is a historical case. It is not "too long" as a mini series played over several days, it is too long as a single piece, and tries hard to include every availabe fact known. The beginning of this film depicts an innocent man being railroaded. Controversy surrounds the case to this day over racial and social prejudices of all kinds. Leo Frank was both Jewish and a Northerner, who was wealthy, which caused resentment in the South among some. {spoiler territory} Because whites had believed the testimony of a black man to convict Leo Frank, this was a landmark case. The lynching of a Jew whose sentence had been commuted to Life is another emotionally charged aspect of the case. I personally believe a human who kill would have a pattern of violence or some previous history or known motive; this would not be their first violent crime. As much as I'd like to believe an accountant led a secretly violent and sordid life, I cannot consider it possible in this case.

The Leo Frank story is one that should be told, but it deserves more than this TV melodrama delivers. Frank is the only Jew lynched in the South where Jews had been living since the 17th century. Some served in the Civil War on the side of the Confederate army and some owned slaves. In 1800 more Jews lived in Charleston, SC than any other city in the country; by the time Frank moved to Atlanta, there were 3,000 Jews living there. Frank, however, was a Northerner and an industrialist. He was part of a wave of Jewish transplants that came South to run factories like the one in this film. Those factories paid their workers (mostly children, mostly girls) less than 1/5th the wage paid workers in the North. Once Frank fell victim to the hysteria in his community, his defense team went after Jim Conley and Frank's personal statement at the end of his trial included racist comments that this production chose to gloss over. There is little doubt of Conley's guilt (even his lawyer said later that he thought he was guilty) but this story is more complicated and deserved a more complex treatment than it got here.A final note, Frank's conviction and subsequent commutation gave birth to two very different movements: the rebirth oft the Ku Klux Klan (this time with antisemitism) and the birth of the Anti-Defamation League.I wish the Murder Of Mary Phagan had gone a little deeper into these waters, but I am glad that the waters have been disturbed, even if just from skipping a stone along the surface.

This movie was good all the way through. This movie was good all the way through. Jack lemmon was great. It kept me interested from beginng to end. One of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Thank you hulu.

The rating's for Hulu "endorsement" of the misogynist joke egotism fest called "PETA." Aka. Pathetic Egotists To Avoid.PETA hates women. PETA hates women. PETA hates women.

White people...Well they all lived pathetically for the rest of their lives. It's enough to make you want to move. Too bad there's no country, state or geographical area that people can move to that doesn't have blood spilled over it.