Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Long after the guests have all left, Hanson is shot dead by Williams in his office after an argument between the two. The following night, at Williams' annual Mercer House Christmas party, Kelso is guest of honor. Seiler introduces Kelso to Williams, and they take Seiler's dog, Uga IV, for a walk through Forsyth Park. Kelso visits the Armstrong Mansion offices of Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams. Making his way to his lodging in Monterey Square, he has a brief interaction with Billy Hanson in front of Mercer House. After being unable to find a taxi, Kelso gets a ride from a tour-bus driver to Jones Street.Īfter a tour of Savannah's tourist hotspots, Kelso alights at Forsyth Park. John Kelso, a magazine reporter with one book - Before the Fall - to his name, arrives in Savannah, amid beautiful architecture and odd doings, to write a feature for Town & Country on one of Williams' famous Christmas parties. The panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams, a self-made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant, and semi- closeted homosexual. The house is now known as the Mercer Williams House Museum The alleged murder of Billy Hanson occurred in Williams' study – the bottom left room in this photograph. The film was shot entirely in Savannah, Georgia. Danny Hansford, the shooting victim in the book, is renamed Billy Hanson in the film and is portrayed by a 24-year-old Jude Law, in one of his early film roles. Three people - The Lady Chablis, Emma Kelly and Jerry Spence - play themselves, while Sonny Seiler, one of Williams' lawyers in the book, plays Judge Samuel L. Filming was permitted inside Mercer House, but action scenes were filmed later on a soundstage at Warner Bros. "Jack" Riley (his wife was played by Mary Alice Hendrix). Several real-life locals appear in the movie, notably in the party scene at Mercer House, including Williams' sister, Dorothy, and nieces Susan and Amanda, as well as Georgia senator John R. ![]() ![]() ![]() The multiple trials depicted in Berendt's book are combined into one trial for the film. The screenplay by John Lee Hancock was based on John Berendt's 1994 book of the same name and follows the story of an antiques dealer, Jim Williams, on trial for the murder of a male prostitute who was his lover. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a 1997 American mystery thriller film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and starring John Cusack and Kevin Spacey.
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