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THE FIFTH STRING
81 mins. American Film Partners International
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Pocahontas County musician Dwight Diller and Clay County musician John Morris play two brothers who love old time music. Diller, the older brother, is a professor of music and folklore who returns to Appalachia for the funeral of his uncle who raised him. Trapped in the mountains, he embarks on a confrontation with a past he has tried to forget.
Filmed on location in Philadelphia, Clay, and Pocahontas Counties. Some locations in Pocahontas County include The Old Log Church, Moore's Cabins on Jericho Road, the Marlinton Presbyterian Church, the Marlinton home of Wilma Wilson and Jamie Wilson Pitze, places in the Huntersville and Beaver Creek area, the county jail, the high school, and the radio station.
A number of local people are included: some of Pam Lund's students, several local law enforcement deputies, Woody Schoolcraft, and others.
