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Joe Hill( 1971)

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"I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night. Alive as you or me. Says I, but Joe you're ten years dead. I never died says he."

Overview

In the early 1900s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to go on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Thommy Berggren

      Joe Hill

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      Anja Schmidt

      Lucia

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      Kelvin Malave

      The Fox

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      Evert Anderson

      Blackie

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      Cathy Smith

      Cathy

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      Hasse Persson

      Paul

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      David Moritz

      David

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      Richard Weber

      Richard

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      Joel Miller

      Ed Rowan

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      Robert Faeder

      George

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      Wendy Geier

      Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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      Liska March

      The Charity Woman

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      Michael Logan

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      Karl I. Dambacher Jr.

      Townsperson (uncredited)

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      Frank Molinari

      The Tenor (uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Jun 08 2025
    Landing at Ellis Island from Europe at the start of the 20th century, the Hågglund brothers anticipate opportunities galore in this new land after years of poverty and illness at home in Sweden. Unable to speak the language, they can only find manual labour work and it is this dead-end existence that spurs Joe (Thommy Berggren) to challenge his ideals of just what life in the USA was going to mean! Separated from his brother he is soon travelling the land as a drifter, travelling illicitly on the railways and that’s when he encounters the enthusiastically burgeoning IWW. At first, they look lik...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

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