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Robert Forster (John Cassellis)........................................... |
...............................................Verna Bloom (Eileen Horton) |
| Peter Bonerz (Gus)............................................................ |
.............................................................Mariana Hill (Ruth) |
| Harold Blankenship (Harold Horton)..................................... |
...................................................Sid McCoy (Frank Baker) |
| Christene Bergstrom (Dede)............................................... |
..........................................Robert McAndrew (Pennybaker) |
| William Sickengen (News Director Karlin)............................ |
.................................................Beverly Younger (rich lady) |
| Marian Walters (social worker)............................................ |
.........................................Edward Croke (plainclothesman) |
| Sandra Ann Roberts (blonde in car)..................................... |
.................................................Doug Kimball (newscaster) |
| Janet Langhart (maid)........................................................ |
.......................................Peter Boyle (gun clininc manager) |
| Georgia Tadda (secretary).................................................. |
.................................Charles Geary (Buddy, Harold's father) |
Jeff Donaldson, Richard Abrams, Felton Perry, Val Grey, Bill Sharp, Robert Paige, Walter Bradford, Russel Davis, Livingston Lewis, Barbara Jones, John S. Jackson, (black militants). Simone Zorn, Madeleine Marcou, Micky Pallis, Lynn Erlick, Lester Brownlee, Morris Bleckman, Wally Wright, Sam Ventura, George Boulet (reporters & photographers). James Jacobs, Spence Jackson, Dorien Suhr, Kenneth Whitner, Connie Fleischauer, Mary Smith, Nancy Lee Noble (Kennedy students). Linda Handelman, Moira Friedman, Kathryn Schubert, Barbara Brydenthal, Elizabeth Moisant, Rose Bormacher (gun clinic ladies). Roger Phillips, Robert Blankenship, China Lee, Sirri Murad.
Drama. Loosely based on the novel: Jack Couffer, The Concrete Wilderness (New York 1967). John Cassellis, a news cameraman for a Chicago television station, and his soundman, Gus, cover a wide spectrum of events, including the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Resurrection City in Washington, D.C. John's attitude is cool and dispassionate; he films a victim of a car crash before calling an ambulance and encounters hostility and accusations of social irresponsibility when covering a human interest story in a black neighborhood. He has a run-in with 13 year old Harold, whom he suspects of breaking into his car. Fleeing the parking lot, Harold drops a carrying case containing a pet pigeon. Once John realizes that the boy was not trying to rob him, he returns the case to the slum tenement where Harold lives with his mother Eileen, a welfare recipient who moved from her West Virginia home when her husband was sent to Vietnam. Meanwhile, tension mounts in the city: war protestors plan to demonstrate during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and Chicago's police force and the Illinois National Guard prepare for confrontation. Criticized by his superiors for shooting too much film and outraged at his television station's surrender of his footage to the FBI, John creates a row and is fired. During this period of inactivity, he devotes most of his time to Eileen and Harold, thereby ending his long affair with Ruth, a nurse. As the political convention begins, John gets a free-lance assignment to cover the event. On the eve of the first session at the International Amphitheatre, Harold becomes so upset at seeing his mother and John embracing that he runs away from home. Eileen searches for him in Grant Park and he is caught in a violent clash between demonstrators and police. Finding her in the midst of armed National Guardsmen and exploding tear gas bombs, John takes her to his car and drives her around the city, unaware that Harold has returned home. Distracted by the day's events, John loses control of his car and smashes into a tree, killing Eileen and seriously injuring himself. A passing motorist stops for a moment to photograph the accident and then drives on.
Note: Filmed entirely on location in Kentucky, Minnesota, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Working title: Concrete Wilderness. H&J Pictures. Dist Paramount Pictures, 27 Aug 1969 [New York opening;c4 Aug 1969;LP37075]. Sd; col (Technicolor). 35 mm. 110 min. MPAA rating X. Prod Jerrold Wexler, Haskell Wexler. Exec Prod Tully Friedman. Assoc Prod Michael Philip Butler, Steven North. Dir-Writer Haskell Wexler. Dir Photog Haskell Wexler. Camera Op Mike Margulies. Camera Asst Ron Vargas. Art Dir Leon Ericksen. Titl James Talbot. Film Ed Verna Fields. Asst Ed Marcia Griffin. Ed Cons Paul Golding. Mus Score Mike Bloomfield. Incidental Mus The Mothers of Invention. Song: "Merry-Go-Round" Wild Man Fisher. Sd Mix Chris Newman. Sd Ed Kay Rose. Asst Dir Wendell Franklin. Prod Asst William Schwartz. Asst to the Prod Jonathan Haze. Script Supv Meta Rebner. Chicago Cons Studs Terkel. Gaffer Tom Ryan.
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