Film
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
United States- Director
- Stan Lathan
- Year
- 1982
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
Top cast
Yaphet Kotto
Denmark Vessey
Ned Beatty
Benjamin Hammett
Antonio Fargas
Gullah Jack
Cleavon Little
Rolla
Donald Moffat
Captain Vesey
Brock Peters
Morris Brown
James Bond III
Young Denmark
Rosalind Cash
Petronia
David Harris
Sandy Vessey
Mary Alice
Beck
Cyrus Newitt
William Johnson
Roger Robinson
George Wilson
Samm-Art Williams
Peter Poyas
Bernie Casey
Bacchus
Directed by
Stan Lathan
Written by
William Hauptman
Produced by
Yanna Kroyt Brandt