Charles Thompson

Love and faith are put to the ultimate test in this stirring romantic drama set against the landmark Scopes 'Monkey Trial' of 1925. Charles Anderson (Nathan West, Miracle) is a talented young reporter engaged to Rose (Ashley Johnson, The Help), who works with him at the Tennessee small town newspaper his late father founded. The 'Trial of the Century' brings brilliant adversaries William Jennings Bryan (Fred Thompson, The Genesis Code) and Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy, Cocoon) to Charles' hometown. But as the trial unfolds, Charles is caught up in the media circus and becomes torn between his journalistic integrity and impressing his mentor, the colorful Baltimore Sun editor H. L. Menken (Colm Meaney, Star Trek: The Next Generation), who presses him to 'make a story' instead of report one.

Charles Thompson was a troubled 13-year-old boy who finally found a home and family, but an illness cut his life short.

Trailer for Alleged. Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes 'Monkey Trial' of 1925. Charles Anderson (Nathan West), a talented young reporter, feels trapped living in a tiny town (Dayton, TN, 1925) in steep decline. Using the Monkey Trial as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break into the journalistic big leagues, Charles becomes the eager prot g of Baltimore Sun editor H.L Mencken (Colm Meany), America's most colorful and influential columnist. The trial itself lives up to its billing as the 'Trial of the Century' when the great Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy) defends the theory of evolution against the popular statesman and fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan (Sen. Fred Thompson) who sees the reduction of mankind to mere animal status as both inaccurate and potentially disastrous. Once in the midst of this staged event, Charles is torn between his love for the more principled Rose (Ashley Johnson), his fianc e, and the escalating moral compromises that he is asked to make by the agnostic and acerbic Mencken. When the truth is at stake, Charles discovers, some lies just have to be told.

DVD trailer for Alleged. Love and faith are put to the ultimate test in this stirring romantic drama set against the landmark Scopes 'Monkey Trial' of 1925. Charles Anderson (Nathan West, Miracle) is a talented young reporter engaged to Rose (Ashley Johnson), who works with him at the Tennessee small town newspaper his late father founded. The 'Trial of the Century' brings brilliant adversaries William Jennings Bryan (Fred Dalton Thompson) and Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy) to Charles' hometown. But as the trial unfolds, Charles is caught up in the media circus and becomes torn between his journalistic integrity and impressing his mentor, the colorful Baltimore Sun editor H. L. Mencken (Colm Meaney, Star Trek: The Next Generation), who presses him to 'make a story' instead of report one.