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The Cradle Will Fall (1983) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 24, 1983

Original Title:
The Cradle Will Fall

Genres:
Drama | Horror | TV Movie | Thriller

Production Companies:
CBS
Cates Films
Procter & Gamble Productions
Telepictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 100

This doctor's a killer. Is the woman tracking him his next patient or his next victim?

Overview from TheMovieDB

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 Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera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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Production

Art Direction:
Virginia Field

Boom Operator:
Andrew Adams

Costume Design:
Evelyn Thompson

Director:
John Llewellyn Moxey

Director of Photography:
Steven Poster

Editor:
Dennis M. O'Connor

First Assistant "B" Camera:
Jeff Wolf

Key Grip:
Michael E. Matteson

Novel:
Mary Higgins Clark

Orchestrator:
Lanny Meyers

Original Music Composer:
Elliot Lawrence

Producer:
Joseph Cates

Publicist:
Sam Mattingly

Sound Supervisor:
John Speak

Teleplay:
Jerome Coopersmith

Unit Production Manager:
Barbara De Fina

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