Movie
The Chamber
Overview
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
Details
- Release date
- 1996-10-11
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Davis Entertainment
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Chris O'Donnell as Adam Hall
- Gene Hackman as Sam Cayhall
- Faye Dunaway as Lee Cayhall Bowen
- Robert Prosky as E. Garner Goodman
- Lela Rochon as Nora Stark
- Bo Jackson as Sgt. Clyde Packer
- Millie Perkins as Ruth Kramer
- David Marshall Grant as Gov. David McAllister
- Raymond J. Barry as Rollie Wedge
- Nicholas Pryor as Judge Flynn F. Slattery
- Richard Bradford as Wyn Lettner
- Harve Presnell as Attorney General Roxburgh
Crew
- James Foley - Director
- William Goldman - Screenplay
- Phil Alden Robinson - Screenplay
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