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Desperate Characters

09/22/1971

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1hr 37min

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Drama

STORY

Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Shirley MacLaine
  • Kenneth Mars
  • Sada Thompson
  • Jack Somack
  • Gerald S. O'Loughlin

    Directors

  • Paul Leaf
  • Michael Haley
  • François Moullin
  • Roberta Hodes

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • T.D.J. Productions Inc.
  • ITC Entertainment

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Shirley MacLaine

Sophie Bentwood

Kenneth Mars

Otto Bentwood

Sada Thompson

Claire

Jack Somack

Leon

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Charlie

Chris Gampel

Mike Holstein

Mary Alan Hokanson

Flo Holstein

Robert Bauer

Young Man

Carol Kane

Young Girl

Michael Higgins

Francis Early

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