My Sweet Charlie (1970)
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Psychological Drama |
Run Time - 97 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - G
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Having tried and failed to produce the David Westheimer novel and play My Sweet Charlie as a theatrical film, Richard Levinson and William Link had to be content with making the property as a TV movie-which turned out to be one of the very best of its kind. Al Freeman, Jr. plays Charlie, a black New York lawyer falsely accused of a crime in a rural Texas town. Escaping from his tormentors, Charlie takes refuge in a boarded-up farmhouse. Here he meets another fugitive: unmarried, pregnant Marlene Chambers (Patty Duke). Hostile towards each other at first, Charlie and Marlene become friends. The story's tragic ending nonetheless holds a glimmer of hope. Emmy Awards went to star Patty Duke (the first ever given to a TV-movie actress) and to the script by Levinson and Link. First telecast January 20, 1970, My Sweet Charlie was later given a brief theatrical release.
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Black [race], escape, false-accusation, farmhouse, friendship, lawyer, pregnancy, rurality