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American Tales: The Executioner's Song

on BBC Two England

A film shown in two-parts. Starring
Tommy Lee Jones Christine Lahti
One summer evening in 1976, Gary Gilmore shot dead a petrol station attendant. The next night he killed the manager of a motel. From his prison cell in Utah he demanded to be executed by firing squad.
1: April 1976: 35-year-old
Gary Gilmore is released on parole from federal prison in Illinois and joins his cousin Brenda Nicol in Provo,
Utah. After a spell working for his uncle Vem Damico , he changes jobs and meets Nicole Baker , an attractive 19-year-old mother of two. Falling in love, they begin a tempestuous relationship that leads to impossible tensions on both sides.
Screenplay by Norman Mailer , based on his book Producer/Director Lawrence Schiller (Part 2 next week)
• PROFILE ON ROSANNA ARQUETTE: page 17 7
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Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Lee Jones
Unknown:
Christine Lahti
Unknown:
Gary Gilmore
Unknown:
Gary Gilmore
Unknown:
Brenda Nicol
Unknown:
Vem Damico
Unknown:
Nicole Baker
Unknown:
Norman Mailer
Director:
Lawrence Schiller
Gary Gilmore:
Tommy Lee Jones
Brenda Nicol:
Christine Lahti
Nicole Baker:
Rosanna Arquette
Vern Damico:
Eli Wallach
Johnny Nicol:
Jordan Clarke
Earl Dorius:
Richard Venture
April Baker:
Jenny Wright
Pete Galoran:
Walter Olkewitz
Rikki Wood:
Michael Leclair
Val Conlin:
Pat Corley

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