A bank accountant approaching middle age and dissatisfied with the blandness of his life, uses a computer to “borrow” money to finance gambling on his trip to Las Vegas. He steals more and more to cover but when the big win never comes he decides to take even more from the bank and drop out of sight with a young woman he has met. Escaping overseas with five million dollars, he finally winds up back in trouble when he discovers that right from the start he has been part of a cruel conspiracy.
Category: TV Movie
Nicollette Sheridan plays a stripper in the made-for-TV Somebody’s Daughter. Together with her bodyguard/lover Nick Mancusco, Sheridan becomes involved in a murder. The subsequent official cover-up and the attendant police corruption places Nicollette’s future seriously in doubt.
This one-act play, written by Frank South and directed by Robert Altman, features a monologue by a man who left a stable life in Kentucky to pursue his dreams of becoming a cowboy in the West. The play begins as the man sits alone in a ramshackle one-room shack, listening to country-and-western music. His vivid imagination conjures up an actual musician, who sits in the room with him, playing guitar and singing songs with him. As the songs become increasingly depressing, the man turns off his radio, chasing the musician from the room.
A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn’t last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.
A wealthy realtor sends out dozens of copies of a book that paints the FBI in an unfavorable light. They harass her. So she turns to Nero Wolfe to get them off her back.
In this moving drama set near the turn-of-the-century, a New York orphan is placed aboard the notorious orphan train and sent to a Nebraska farm. The family who adopts him still grieves over the loss of their first son and at first tries to use the new boy as a replacement for him. But the young man wants to be loved and appreciated for being himself and a struggle ensues.
The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was behind the blacklisting, and the resultant trial, and Faulk’s victory, helped to put an end to the blacklisting period.
A TV-movie re-creation of the tragic events which followed the Attica Correctional Facility rebellion of September 9, 1971. Inmates demanding better food and living conditions took 38 guards as hostage. Negotiations begin immediately, only to continually break down thanks to uncompromising stubbornness on both sides.