The School for Scandal
London society matron Lady Sneerwell loves to gossip and spends her free time engaged in manipulation. When she selfishly derails the romance of Charles Surface, her scheming unexpectedly creates a ripple effect among her well-to-do acquaintances.
Casts & Crew
Bernard Behrens
Ivar Brogger
Blair Brown
Barbara Bryne
Patricia Conolly
Larry Gates
Nicholas Kepros
Mark Lamos
Kenneth Welsh
Also Directed by Nick Havinga
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One in this series of dramatic specials presented by Hallmark. In this production, Charles Durning appears as the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel.
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A dance performance salute to choreographer-dancer Lester Horton with Alvin Ailey, Carmen de Lavallade and James Truitte, all former members of his company. They perform various works by Horton.
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A news photographer (Susan Anton) hunts conspirators in Brazil.
An advertising artist with a large amount of cash finds herself the latest target of a vicious killer.
A blind woman living at a lonely beach house gives sanctuary to an escaped convict whose ruthless partner is on the way.
In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.