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The Execution (1985) [N/A]

Release Date:
January 14, 1985

Original Title:
The Execution

Genres:
Drama | TV Movie

Production Companies:
Comworld Productions
Newland/Raynor Productions Inc.

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16 

Runtime: 90

Overview from TheMovieDB

The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.

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Production

Art Direction:
Jack Senter

Costume Design:
James Kessler
Mina Mittelman

Director:
Paul Wendkos

Director of Photography:
Michael D. Margulies

Editor:
Steven Cohen

Executive Producer:
John Newland

Hairstylist:
Don Sheldon

Makeup Artist:
Jean Austin

Novel:
Oliver Crawford

Original Music Composer:
Georges Delerue

Producer:
Oliver Crawford
Milton T. Raynor

Set Decoration:
Ethel Robins Richards

Writer:
Oliver Crawford
William Wood

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