WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 4882

Title: 1876 : labor and violence

Alternate Titles:

Eighteen seventy-six : labor and violence

Molly Maguires

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film

Date: c1976 (Release)

Original Summary:

"Excerpt from the feature film "The Molly Maguires."  Depicts dehumanizing conditions of Pennsylvania coal mining in the 1870's.  Shows how despair and anger leads miners to develop "The Molly Maguires," a secret organization dedicated to worker protest."--Audiovisual Materials Catalog 2002-2007 by Audiovisual Services of St. Louis Public Schools.

"Concerns a secret organization of Pennsylvania coal miners called the Molly Maguires which sprang up in the late 1800's in protest against appalling working conditions and exploitations."--WorldCat.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 22 min

Genres: Educational

Subjects: Molly Maguires; Coal miners--Pennsylvania; Gangs--Pennsylvania; Terrorists--Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania--Economic conditions--19th century

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Cast/Actor	Connery, Sean
	Distribution Company	Films Incorporated
	Production Company	Paramount Pictures Corporation
	Director	Ritt, Martin
	Source of Material	St. Louis Public Schools (Saint Louis, Mo.)

Items ^x2

	Item	Description
	4882-1	Safety Film : Viewing print
	4882-2	Safety Film : Viewing print

Contained By ^x1

	Title No	Title
	4819	St. Louis Public Schools educational film library