The Cradle Will Fall (1983 TV Movie)
5/10
TV movies!
20 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
If you're looking for someone to direct a made for TV movie, always go with John Llewellyn Moxey. He was behind great films like Where Have All the People Gone, Home for the Holidays, The Night Stalker and A Taste of Evil amongst others.

Here, he's making a Mary Higgins Clark film all about attorney Kathy DeMaio (Lauren Hutton, Once Bitten), a widow who keeps passing out at the worst moments. As a child, she watched her father die in a hospital and now she's phobic about even being there. It gets worse when she has to stay in a hospital, has a nightmare and wakes to spy a doctor (James Farentino, Dead and Buried) stuffing a body into the trunk of his car.

Look for a young William H. Macy - billed as WH Macy.

The weirdest thing is that Ben Murphy, who plays Hutton's love interest, did a three-episode cameo on the soap opera Guiding Light - thanks Made for TV Mayhem - and characters from that show crossed over into this TV movie!

This was remade in 2004 with Angie Everhart in the lead role.
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