Murder, She Wrote: Powder Keg (1986)
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Somewhere in the Deep South, young singer Matt Burns (Brian L. Green) has been arrested for the murder of local bully Ed Bonner (Jeffrey Osterhage), son of the town's most influential citizen (Stuart Whitman). Innocent bystanders to this developing drama are Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and her friend and fellow writer Ames Caulfield (Craig Stevens), one of whose former students happened to be Matt's mother. At the request of Matt's girl friend (and the dead man's sister) Linda (Cindy Fisher), Jessica does her best to prove Matt's innocence--while an angry lynch mob begins to swarm around the town jail. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- John Llewellyn Moxey
Synopsis of Murder, She Wrote: Powder Keg
Somewhere in the Deep South, young singer Matt Burns (Brian L. Green) has been arrested for the murder of local bully Ed Bonner (Jeffrey Osterhage), son of the town's most influential citizen (Stuart Whitman). Innocent bystanders to this developing drama are Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and her friend and fellow writer Ames Caulfield (Craig Stevens), one of whose former students happened to be Matt's mother. At the request of Matt's girl friend (and the dead man's sister) Linda (Cindy Fisher), Jessica does her best to prove Matt's innocence--while an angry lynch mob begins to swarm around the town jail. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Murder, She Wrote: Powder Keg
- John Alvin - Dr. Frazier
- Mariclare Costello - Cassie Latham Burns
- Cindy Fisher - Linda Bonner
- Dorian Harewood - Sheriff Claudell Cox
- Bill McKinney - Charlie
- Craig Stevens - Prof. Ames Caulfield
- Larry Wilcox - Andy Crane
- Hartley Silver - Man
- W.K. Stratton - Dep. Morgan
- Brian L. Green - Matt Burns
- Pat Corley - Frank Kelso
- Debra Dusay - Desk Clerk
- Jackie Earle Haley - Billy Willetts
- John Dennis Johnston - Peter Fargo
- Jeff Osterhage - Ed Bonner
- Stuart Whitman - Phil Bonner
- Muriel Minot - Woman
- Dave Adams - Barfly
- W.K. Stratton - DeputyMorgan
- Director(s):
- John Llewellyn Moxey
- Writer(s):
- Peter S. Fischer
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