The conspirator

Resource Information

The work The conspirator represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The conspirator

Statement of responsibility

Roadside Attractions ; The American Film Company presents, in association with Wildwood Enterprises ; directed by Robert Redford ; written by James Solomon ; story by James Solomon, Gregory Bernstein ; produced by Robert Redford, Greg Shapiro, Bill Holderman, Brian Falk, Robert Stone ; executive producers, Joe Ricketts, Jeremiah Samuels, Webster Stone

Contributor

• Cullum, John, 1930-
• Bledel, Alexis, 1981-
• Long, Justin, 1978-
• McAvoy, James, 1979-
• Bernstein, Gregory, 1955-
• Bauer, Chris.
• Meaney, Colm, 1953-
• Redford, Robert.
• Andrews, David, 1952-
• Wildwood Enterprises
• Tom Jennings Productions, Inc
• Reedus, Norman, 1969-
• Ricketts, Joe
• Roadside Attractions (Firm)
• Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.)
• Root, Stephen
• Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
• Samuels, Jeremiah.
• American Film Manufacturing Company
• Shapiro, Greg.
• Simmons, Johnny, 1986-
• Solomon, James, (James D.)
• Stone, Robert, 1964-
• Stone, Webster, 1960-
• True-Frost, Jim
• Wilkinson, Tom, 1948-
• Wood, Evan Rachel, 1987-
• Huston, Danny, 1962-
• Holderman, Bill.
• Isham, Mark
• Groff, Jonathan
• Jennings, Thomas
• Falk, Brian Peter.
• Wright, Robin, 1966-
• Kebbell, Toby.
• Dale, James Badge, 1978-
• Kline, Kevin.

Actor

• Wright, Robin, 1966-
• Wood, Evan Rachel, 1987-
• Wilkinson, Tom, 1948-
• True-Frost, Jim
• Groff, Jonathan
• Kebbell, Toby.
• Bauer, Chris.
• McAvoy, James, 1979-
• Dale, James Badge, 1978-
• Simmons, Johnny, 1986-
• Kline, Kevin.
• Cullum, John, 1930-
• Root, Stephen
• Long, Justin, 1978-
• Reedus, Norman, 1969-
• Bledel, Alexis, 1981-
• Huston, Danny, 1962-
• Andrews, David, 1952-
• Meaney, Colm, 1953-

Author

• Solomon, James, (James D.)
• Bernstein, Gregory, 1955-

Composer

• Isham, Mark

Director

• Redford, Robert.
• Jennings, Thomas

Producer

• Ricketts, Joe
• Samuels, Jeremiah.
• Shapiro, Greg.
• Stone, Robert, 1964-
• Falk, Brian Peter.
• Holderman, Bill.
• Stone, Webster, 1960-
• Redford, Robert.

Screenwriter

• Jennings, Thomas
• Solomon, James, (James D.)

Subject

• Military courts -- Drama
• Political crimes and offenses
• Political crimes and offenses -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Drama
• Presidents -- Assassination
• Presidents -- Assassination -- United States -- Drama
• Procesos por delitos políticos -- Teatro
• Surratt, Mary E., (Mary Eugenia), 1820-1865
• Surratt, Mary E., (Mary Eugenia), 1820-1865 -- Drama
• Trials (Assassination)
• Trials (Assassination) -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama
• Tribunales militares -- Teatro
• United States
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Washington (D.C.)
• 1800-1899
• Assassination
• Conspiracies
• Conspiracies -- Drama
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films -- United States
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Historical films
• Historical films
• History
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination -- Drama
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Military courts

Genre

• Historical films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Fiction films
• Teatro
• Feature films
• Drama
• History
• DVD-Video discs
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Language

• eng
• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt--her own son

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Newton Thomas Sigel ; production designer, Kalina Ivanov ; editor, Craig McKay ; costume designer, Louise Frogley ; music, Mark Isham ; consulting historians, Frederic L. Borch, James McPherson, Thomas R. Turner

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violent content

Language note

In English with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed captioned in English

PerformerNote

James McAvoy (Nicholas Baker), Robin Wright (Mary Surratt), Kevin Kline (Edwin Stanton), Evan Rachel Wood (Anna Surratt), Danny Huston (Joseph Holt), Justin Long (Nicholas Baker), Colm Meaney (General Hunter), Alexis Bledel (Sarah Weston), James Badge Dale (William Hamilton), Toby Kebbell (John Wilkes Booth), Johnny Simmons (John Surratt), Norman Reedus (Lewis Payne), John Cullum (Justice Wylie), Jim True-Frost (General Hartranft), Jonathan Groff (Louis Weichmann), Stephen Root (John Lloyd), Chris Bauer (Major Smith), David Andrews (Father Walter), Tom Wilkinson (Reverdy Johnson)

Runtime

122

Technique

live action