A Senate run, a murder trial, and a Nazi hit squad — just another Tuesday in Georgia politics.
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.
Acting
Raymond Burr's swan song as a crusty judge with surprising heart.
Production
That rare 1992 TV movie that actually looks like it had a budget.
Director
Jerry London
Mel Harris
Kate Rule
Corbin Bernsen
Will Lee
Katherine Helmond
Emma Carr
Raymond Burr
Judge Boggs
Rod Taylor
Gen. Willoughby
John Glover
Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
Claude Akins
Sheriff Cox
Reginald VelJohnson
Det. Mickey Henderson
James Wilder
Jerry Lomax
Herb Edelman
Manny Pearl
Henry Jones
Sen. Ben Carr
Cristi Conaway
Charlene Joiner
Joanna Cassidy
Ann Heath
Tim O'Connor
Billy Lee
Julian Holloway
Elton Hunter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Stuart Woods' sprawling Will Lee series, this adapts the second novel when political thrillers could still be leisurely 2.5-hour affairs. The 'Chiefs' miniseries connection is basically required homework.
Raymond Burr filmed this while already ill with cancer; he passed months later. His final scene with Bernsen carries unintentional weight he absolutely deserved to have earned on purpose.
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