by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Joseph Bottoms plays a 17-year-old high school boy who gets his girl friend Kay Lenz pregnant. The girl wants to put the baby up for adoption, but Bottoms decides to take on the parental responsibilities himself. He battles in court to gain custody of the child, even after being apprised of the heavy financial and personal burdens he's about to assume. Made for TV, Unwed Father has a good concept defeated by poor execution. One wonders whether the boy or the girl would have been the "good guy" had this film been made ten years later.
characteristics
- Single-parent
- Men
- Unmarried
- Young
- Youth
- Man
- Illegitimate
- Conflict
- Custody
- Father
- Illegitimacy
- Child
