Product Details

• Actors: Jeff Gray, Tom Davenport
• Directors: Marina Trivette
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• ASIN: 1888522216
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,044 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, President, NC Society of Historians

We were intrigued with...the historical background...the questions still being raised...the way in which the story was told...McMillon was a real gem..

Product Description

In 1833 Mrs. Frances Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina, for the ax murder of her husband Charles. For a century and a half the case has lived on in newspapers, pamphlets, memoires, petition, folksong, and legends. Did Frankie have cause to act — or hope of justice? The Ballad of Frankie Silver explores the case through the stories of Bobby McMillon and the comments of North Carolina Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Gray, and others. This is one of the films in The American Traditional Culture Series: Documentaries of the American South and other American folklore subjects produced by Tom Davenport and Davenport Films in collaboration with Daniel Patterson and the Curriculum in Folklore at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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