Genre: | Drama |
Based On: | My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan by Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. |
Screenplay: | Lane Slate |
Director: | Barry Shear |
Starring: | Don Meredith Ed Lauter Clifton James |
Music: | Morton Stevens |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Executive Producer: | Douglas Benton |
Producer: | George Lehr Debra Miles |
Location: | Nevada City, California Roseville, California Sacramento, California |
Cinematography: | Robert C. Moreno |
Editor: | Jack Kampschroer |
Runtime: | 97 minutes |
Company: | Columbia Pictures Television |
Network: | NBC |
Released: | [1] |
Undercover with the KKK is a 1979 NBC TV movie based on the autobiography My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan by Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. and starring Don Meredith as Rowe.
The film tells the true story of Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan as an undercover agent and then testified as a key witness for the prosecution during the trial of several other Klansmen.[2]