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The Great American Picture Show: True Confessions

on BBC Two England

continues a major season of films new to television.
Today starring Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall

Tom Spellacy is a cop, his brother is a Roman Catholic priest with political ambitions. They take their relationship and their different lives and jobs for granted. Until, that is, a murder comes between them. Investigating the brutal killing of a prostitute, Tom discovers that his brother knew her and is protecting a prominent businessman who is connected with the crime....
This powerful film unites two of America's finest actors in a story of corruption and disillusion, interwoven with a moving portrait of family ties.

(First showing on British television)
In the Picture: page 26

Contributors

Screenplay/Based on the novel by:
John Gregory Dunne
Screenplay:
Joan Didion
Producer:
Irwin Winkler
Producer:
Robert Chartoff
Director:
Ulu Grosbard
Des Spellacy:
Robert De Niro
Tom Spellacy:
Robert Duvall
Jack Amsterdam:
Charles Durning
Dan T Campion:
Ed Flanders
Seamus Fargo:
Burgess Meredith
Cardinal Danaher:
Cyril Cusack
Brenda Samuels:
Rose Gregorio
Howard Terkel:
Dan Hedaya
Mrs Fazenda:
Gwen van Dam
Mr Fazenda:
Tom Hill
Mrs Spellacy:
Jeanette Nolan

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