The Liberation of L.B. Jones

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The Liberation of L.B. Jones

R

Released Mar 18, 1970

1h 41m

Drama

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8 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

A wealthy undertaker seeks to engage a respected lawyer to represent him in a divorce action against his young wife.

Richard Brody

The New Yorker

The film is sufficiently confrontational, its incidents sufficiently agonizing and infuriating, to reflect back at viewers a frank, bitter, and outraged political diagnosis.

May 22, 2020

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Variety Staff

Variety

Unfortunately, not much more than a... sexploitation film.

Jul 30, 2018

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Neil Sinyard

Sight & Sound

Wyler sets up genre expectations of the liberal Hollywood movie that he then ruthlessly dismantles.

Jul 30, 2018

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Armond White

National Review

It’s a revelatory example of how post-Sixties Hollywood liberalism evolved.

Apr 27, 2022

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Diane Perry

New Pittsburgh Courier

Attempts to enlighten, educate, and inform, become bogged down in the rhetorical nonsense of a seemingly contrived situation, never justified, throughout the film, which leaves the viewer wondering if anyone involved is at all serious.

Dec 13, 2021

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Shelby Sankore

Los Angeles Free Press

This movie was long overdue. Consequently, it may not have the socially redeeming impact it would have had a decade ago - despite some superb acting, especially by Lee J. Cobb, Roscoe Lee Browne and Yaphet Kotto.

Jan 15, 2020

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Alain E

Boring, slow moving. There was obviously a reason this was Wyler’s last picture.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/04/25

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Audience Member

Not a bad time piece. Some may wince at the N word.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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William Wyler

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Lee J. Cobb

Oman Hedgepath

Anthony Zerbe

Willie Joe Worth

Roscoe Lee Browne

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Synopsis

A wealthy undertaker seeks to engage a respected lawyer to represent him in a divorce action against his young wife.

Director: William Wyler
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Co: Liberation Company
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 18, 1970, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 7, 2020
Runtime: 1h 41m