Limbo (1972)
- Starring:
- Kate Jackson, Katherine Justice, (more)
- Director(s):
- Mark Robson
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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Synopsis of Limbo
Limbo was one of Hollywood's first big-studio films to concentrate on how Vietnam affected the families of the combatants. Kathleen Nolan, Kate Jackson and Katherine Justice play three service wives living at a Florida Air Force Base. Their husbands have all been called to active duty in Vietnam, and all have either been captured or are MIAs. Avoiding the propagandistic stance of most war films of its period (and of such World War II films as Tender Comrade), Limbo manages to accurately convey the churned-up emotions of women who love their husbands and their country, but do not love what husbands are expected to do on behalf of that country. Before it is overwhelmed by soap opera suds, the film (scripted by Joan Micklin Silver and James Bridges, both on the verge of bigger things) makes several cogent points about personal relationships in the face of national crisis. Limbo has also been released as Chained to Yesterday and Women in Limbo. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Limbo
- Kate Jackson - Sandy Lawton
- Stuart Margolin - Phil Garrett
- Kathleen Nolan - Mary Kay Buell
- Frank Logan - Gen. Gibbs
- Laura Kornbluh - Julie Buell
- Kim Nicholas - Kathy Buell
- Andrew Jarrell - Ed Baldwin
- Charles Martin - Col. Gunderson
- Katherine Justice - Sharon Dornbeck
- Hazel Medina - Jane York
- Russell Wiggins - Alan Weber
- Michael Bersell - Joe Buell
- Ken Kornbluh - Pete Buell
- Joan Murphy - Margaret Holroyd
- Dick Callinan - Col. Lloyd
- Michael Phillips - Lt. Phillips
- Director(s):
- Mark Robson
- Writer(s):
- Joan Micklin Silver, James Bridges
- Producer(s):
- Linda Gottlieb
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Not For Children)
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