Matewan

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• 'David Straithairn', 'Kevin Tighe', Jace Alexander and John Sayles also appeared in Sayles' Eight Men Out about the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" World Series scandal.
• Thurmond was the site of one of the five offices of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. Two of the men killed in Matewan that day were the brothers of agency owner, Thomas Felts. In retaliation, Felts had the Matewan police chief, Sid Hatfield, killed when he was tried in Welch, WV. He walked up the steps to the courthouse and met five detectives waiting for him at the top. He was filled full of bullets and then detective Hugh Lucas turned and emptied a gun into the courthouse wall as though Hatfield had shot at them, then placed the gun in his hand after detective Charley Lively had shot him behind the ear to make sure he was dead.
• Sid Hatfield and Mayor Testerman are buried next to each other in a small cemetery just outside of Matewan, in Buskirk, KY.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): In the scene where the coal company executives are trying to bribe the Mayor and Sid Hatfield, the calendar behind the mayor reads September 1920. The historical shootout at the climax occurred in May of 1920, four months beforehand.