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First Run: Whose Life Is It Anyway?

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

opens a season of films new to television starring
Richard Dreyfuss John Cassavetes Christine Lahti
Following a car crash, successful young sculptor
Ken Harrison finds himself in hospital, totally paralysed from the neck down.
Realising there is no hope of complete recovery, the normally irrepressible and wise-cracking Ken becomes a difficult patient with one obsession - that he be allowed to terminate his life. This dramatic film is based on the award-winning play by BRIAN CLARK dealing with the controversial subject of euthanasia.
Screenplay by BRIAN CLARK and REGINALD ROSE Produced by LAWRENCE P BACHMANN Directed by JOHN BADHAM
(First showing on British television)
0 FILMS: page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Dreyfuss
Unknown:
John Cassavetes
Unknown:
Christine Lahti
Unknown:
Ken Harrison
Play By:
Brian Clark
Unknown:
Brian Clark
Produced By:
Lawrence P Bachmann
Directed By:
John Badham
Ken:
Richard Dreyfuss
Dr Michael Emerson:
John Cassavetes
Dr Clare Scott:
Christine Lahti
Carter Hill:
Bob Balaban
Judge Wyler:
Kenneth McMillan
Mary Jo Sadler:
Kaki Hunter
Orderly John:
Thomas Carter
Nurse Rodriguez:
Alba Oms
Pat:
Janet Eilber
Source: Radio Times

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