A Tragic Antihero: Judy
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The Cradle Will Fall (1983)
Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.
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Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.
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Genre:Thriller, Horror, Drama, TV Movie
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In Theaters:5/24/1983
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Runtime:100 minutes
Studio:Cates Films, Telepictures, Procter & Gamble Productions, CBS
Cast
John Llewellyn Moxey
Director
Lauren Hutton
Kathy DeMaio
Ben Murphy
Dr. Richard Carroll
James Farentino
Dr. Edgar Highley
Charita Bauer
Bert Bauer
Carolyn Ann Clark
Leslie Ann
Joe Ponazecki
Larry Wyatt
Elvera Roussel
Hope
Jerry Ver Dorn
Ross Marler
Doris Belack
Edna Burns
Michael Higgins
Dr. Emmet Salem
Ralph Byers
Christopher Lewis
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