Mississippi-made movie to premiere at Meridian’s Temple Theatre

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) – A film concerning the loss of life of explorer and politician Meriwether Lewis will make its regional premiere on the Temple Theatre Saturday and Sunday. Lewis was half of the management staff of the well-known Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored and mapped the American West and served as governor of the Louisiana Territory.

The film, Mysterious Circumstance: The Dying of Meriwether Lewis, was written and directed by Mississippi native Clarke Richey and filmed in Tishomingo County. Its solid consists of Philadelphia native Marcus Dupree and John Schneider, who starred as Beau on The Dukes of Hazzard.

Showings on the Temple begin at 2 p.m. every day. Doorways open at 1 p.m. Tickets are $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for college students.

Right here’s a synopsis of the film:

In 1809, famed American explorer Meriwether Lewis (Evan Williams) died of gunshot wounds at Grinder’s Stand on the Natchez Hint, an remoted wilderness highway connecting Nashville, Tenn., to Natchez, Miss. Did the Governor of Higher Louisiana commit suicide as historical past experiences or was his finish way more sinister? On this thriller/thriller from author/director Clark Richey, competing variations of Lewis’ loss of life are imagined by ornithologist Alexander Wilson (Billy Slaughter), an agent of Thomas Jefferson and a good friend to Lewis, throughout an interview with Priscilla Grinder (Amye Gousset), the one supposed witness to the explorer’s ultimate night time alive, and a tense encounter together with her husband Robert (Sonny Marinelli).

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