Re: New movie

Richard Lowe (fd78@jove.acs.unt.edu)
Wed, 21 Sep 1994 22:49:58 -0500

From: "Dennis P. Lawrence" <lawrence@tyrell.net>
Subject: Re: New Movie (fwd)

I wonder if they are basing it on the 1955 MacKinlay Kantor novel
_Andersonville_? I thought it was a great book. It remarkably showed
the horrors of the camp while not casting heroes and villains. I think it
might make a much more realistic look at the war in terms of
what it can do to humanity than the romantic _Gettysburg_.

Dennis
lawrence@tyrell.net

> From: Thomas G Clemens <tclemens@mason1.gmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: New Movie (fwd)
>
> I don't know much more than you do, but Turner is doing a movie on
> Andersonville, and it is being shot right now, about an hour or two south
> of Atlanta. A friend of mine is training the "extras," using reenactors
> and SAG people. I have no idea how they will make a prison camp into
> entertainment. Hope this helps.
>
> Tom Clemens
> Hagerstown Jr. College