When Gary Duncan was arrested on trumped-up charges, essentially for being Black, his situation was hardly unique. But his readiness to fight the bogus case was nothing short of heroic, especially in 1966 Plaquemines Parish, near New Orleans, part of a region that one of the interviewees in Nancy Buirski's film calls a "totalitarian nation." The word "totalitarian" is uttered several times in A Crime on the Bayou, and on the evidence of this real-life drama, it isn't hyperbole.
The Deep South's Jim Crow legal system was openly racist and tyrannical, and anyone who dared to point that out was sure to suffer.
Choppily told but thoughtful and illuminating, writer-director Buirski's latest film completes a trilogy about the civil rights era,.
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