Fools' Parade is a 1971 American crime-drama period film directed by Andrew McLaglen, with top-billed stars James Stewart and George Kennedy, and second-tier stars Strother Martin, Kurt Russell, William Windom, Mike Kellin and Anne Baxter. It was based on the novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The film is also known as Dynamite Man from Glory Jail.

Plot

In 1935, the one-eyed murderer Mattie Appleyard who refers to his obviously unmatched glass eye with the persona "Tighe" (James Stewart), bank robber Lee Cottrill (Strother Martin), and a young convict by the name of Johnny Jesus (Kurt Russell) are released on the same day from the West Virginia State Penitentiary, located in the fictional town of Glory. Appleyard is issued a check for $25,452.32 for his 40 years of prison work, an enormous amount in the Great Depression. The released prisoners Appleyard and Cottrill have been long planning to establish and work together in their own independent retail grocery store that is to be located in a distant West Virginia coal camp community that, at that time was only served by a coal company store.