‘DEAD MAN’S WIRE’ W/ POST-FILM DISCUSSION FROM LISA HENDRICKSON AND WILL HIGGINS


On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a "dead man's wire" from the trigger to Tony's own neck.


There will be an intro and post-film discussion after the screening with author Lisa Hendrickson and reporter Will Higgins.

Lisa Hendrickson is an Indianapolis author who co-wrote, with Richard “Dick” Hall, Kiritsis and Me: 63 Hours at Gunpoint, which documents Hall’s 1977 kidnapping by Tony Kiritsis. In addition, she edited a series of three books commissioned by the Indiana Bicentennial Commission for the state’s 200th anniversary in 2016.

As a reporter for The Indianapolis Star, Will Higgins interviewed Tony Kiritsis. He also covered the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rallies in the rural Midwest, war in Iraq and a run of homicides in Gary, IN. Higgins is the founder of the Museum of Fabulosity, the American Association of Linear Bocce and the American Society of Presidential Urine Collectors.

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Credits

Director(s):

Gus Van Sant

Writer(s):

Austin Kolodney

Cast:

Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino