A Crime on the Bayou (2020)
Coming at June 18, 2021 in theaters
Documentary
A Crime on the Bayou is documentary film directed and written by Nancy Buirski. The film stars Gary Duncan, Richard Sobol, Lolis Eric Elie, Robert A. Collins and Armand Derfner. The film primiered at November 11, 2020 on DOC NYC.
A Crime on the Bayou is the story of Gary Duncan, a Black teenager from Plaquemines Parish, a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans. In 1966, Duncan tries to break up an argument between white and Black teenagers outside a newly integrated school. He gently lays his hand on a white boy’s arm. The boy recoils like a snake. That night, police burst into Duncan’s trailer and arrest him for assault on a minor. A young Jewish attorney, Richard Sobol, leaves his prestigious D.C. firm to volunteer in New Orleans. With his help, Duncan bravely stands up to a racist legal system powered by a white supremacist boss to challenge his unfair arrest. Their fight goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Duncan and Sobol’s lifelong friendship is forged.
Director: Nancy Buirski
Writer: Nancy Buirski
Stars: Gary Duncan, Richard Sobol, Lolis Eric Elie, Robert A. Collins, Armand Derfner, Shea Boatswain, Julian Bones
►Cast
| Gary Duncan | ► | |
| Richard Sobol | ► | |
| Lolis Eric Elie | ► | |
| Robert A. Collins | ► | |
| Armand Derfner | ► | |
| Shea Boatswain | ► | voice of Bert Grant |
| Julian Bones | ► | Bernard St. Ann |
| Camari Brown | ► | voice of Lolis Elie |
| Isaac J. Conner | ► | Richard Sobol |
| Tom Gibbs | ► | voice of Mr. John Dowling |
| Quentin Hudspeth | ► | voice of Mr. Darryl Bubrig |
| Skeeta Jenkins | ► | voice of Gary Duncan |
| Ken Petrie | ► | voice of Sidney Provensal |
| Kasim Rana | ► | voice of Herman M. Landry |
| Alexander Walk | ► | Wayne Scarabin (voice) |