The Gift was a Christmas 1979 TV-movie offering based on the semi-autobiographical book written in 1973 by Pete Hammill. Gary Frank plays the Hammill counterpart, a Brooklyn-born sailor about to be shipped off to the Korean War. Frank decides to use his 3-day pass to discover if his girl friend really loves him, if he can communicate at last with his troublesome parents, and if he can get his own life together before being sent into battle. Julie Harris plays Frank’s mother, while Glenn Ford portrays Frank’s pugnacious, one-legged Irish dad.
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Pregnant mother Wanda LeFauve ekes out a government-assisted living with her jobless husband, Al, and their four children, in a rundown trailer park. In a desperate bid for money, Wanda answers a classified ad from a wealthy Hollywood woman, Rachel Luckman, and her husband, Richard, who are seeking a newborn to adopt. They make an agreement and tensely await the baby’s birth, but each faces a profound struggle with the decision.
Arthur Miller himself adapted his Pultizer Prize-winning modern tragedy for this 1966 television production, with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock reprising their original Broadway roles as the Lomans. This classic production toys with time in its shattering telling of a middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope.
A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that’s developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious and cut-throat business the pharmaceutical industry can be.
Jessica Cochran is a wife and mother of two kids who must contend with Gary, her increasingly abusive husband. Unemployed and unhinged, Gary torments both Jessica and their children relentlessly and little can be done to curb his rage. Though she receives some support from an understanding boss and the head of a women’s shelter, it ultimately may not be enough to help Jessica escape her horrible situation.
This is the story is based on an actual incident. Claude Dallas is a man who loves to be free, so he lives in the mountains where he hunts for his food. However, Bill Pogue is a driven game warden, who abhors anyone who hunts out of season. When he catches Claude Dallas doing that; he’s about to arrest him when Claude kills him and the other warden with him. When the man who was with Dallas tells the police what happened, a nationwide manhunt ensues. And there are people who didn’t like Pogue and they hope Dallas is never caught.
Tortured by the abduction of her 3-year-old son 12 years earlier, Mare does not know what to believe when a young man arrives at her door claiming to be Luke, her long-lost child. While Mare’s fiancé, Dan, suspects that Luke is an impostor, Mare is simply happy to have her boy back. But, as Luke reveals his true personality, Mare and Dan fear that allowing him into their lives could have deadly consequences.
Nazi war criminal Franz Kessler is an expert in germ warfare living in Hong Kong. In order to maintain his rich lifestyle he does a deal to provide terrorists them with a lethal gas. To protect himself he plants a timebomb in a Hong Kong sewer along with a large sample of his wares. When things don’t go to plan the police find themselves in a desperate search to prevent it from detonating.