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• A Teleplay by Terrence McNally
  Terrence McNally
  Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...
  
  
• Based on a story by John Cheever
  John Cheever
  John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy,...
  
   (The Five-Forty-Eight
  The Five-Forty-Eight
  "The Five-Forty-Eight" is a 1954 short story by John Cheever published in The Stories of John Cheever, though it may have been published previously. The story is about a businessman called Blake, who is accosted on a train at gunpoint by his former secretary, named Miss Dent...
  
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• Produced by Peter Weinberg
  Peter Weinberg
  Peter A. Weinberg is an Anglo-American businessman.Weinberg was educated at Claremont McKenna College, California, and received his MBA from Harvard in 1983.In January 2006, Weinberg announced his intention to join takeover specialist Joseph R...
  
  
• Directed by James Ivory
  James Ivory (director)
  James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
  
  
• Director of Photography Andrzej Bartkowiak
  Andrzej Bartkowiak
  Andrzej Bartkowiak, A.S.C. is a Polish cinematographer and director.In the early 1980s, Bartkowiak was cinematographer on three films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture: The Verdict, Terms of Endearment, and Prizzi's Honor.As cinematographer he has collaborated with several...
  
  
• Film Editor David E. McKenna
• Unit Production Manager And 1st Assistant Director David B. Appleton
• Music Composed and Conducted by Jonathan Tunick
  Jonathan Tunick
  Jonathan Tunick is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer, one of twelve people to have won all four major American show business awards: the Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy. He has also worked with all of the other eleven people. His principal instrument is the clarinet...
  
  
• Art Director John Wright Stevens
• Costume Designer Julie Weiss
• Hair Design Joe Tubens, C.H.D.
• Sound Cabell Smith
• Casting Feuer & Ritzer
• Script Editor Kenneth Cavander
• Associate Producers J. Stephen Fairchild, Noam Yerushalmi
• Executive Producer Jac Venza
  Jac Venza
  Jac Venza is a public television producer who is directly responsible for most of the theatre and music programs that have been seen on PBS since its creation in 1970...
  
  

Cast, in order of appearance

• Laurence Luckinbill
  Laurence Luckinbill
  Laurence George Luckinbill is an American actor.-Life and career:Luckinbill was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the son of Agnes and Laurence Benedict Luckinbill. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1956 and The Catholic University of America in 1958.He starred in the 1976 Broadway play...
  
   - Blake
• Mary Beth Hurt
  Mary Beth Hurt
  Mary Beth Hurt is an American actress of stage and screen.-Personal life:Hurt was born Mary Supinger in 1946 in Marshalltown, Iowa, the daughter of Delores Lenore and Forrest Clayton Supinger. Her childhood babysitter was actress Jean Seberg, also a Marshalltown native...
  
   - Miss Dent
• Laurinda Barrett - Louise Blake
• Dale Hodges - Receptionist
• Kathy Keeney - Anne Blake
• Philip Scher - Charlie Blake
• Jon De Vries - Henry Watkins
• Nicholas Luckinbill - Tad Watkins
• Ann McDonough - June Thorpe
• Robert Hitt - Price
• Tiger Haynes
  Tiger Haynes
  Tiger Haynes was an American actor and musical performer. .He was born as George Haynes in Frederiksted, St. Croix, and moved to New York when he was a boy...
  
   - Guard
• Susan Hovey - Girl in elevator
• John Ramsey - Bartender
• John Harkins - Trace Bearden
• Adam Petroski - Conductor

External links

• Official Site from Merchant Ivory