Crisis at Central High (1980)
- Director(s):
- Lamont Johnson
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Crisis at Central High is the sort of film that fully justifies the existence of made-for-TV movies. This superior effort is a dramatization of the court-ordered integration of Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School in 1957. With threats of violence mounting (and some carried out), it becomes necessary for the government to send in Federal troops to escort the nine black teenagers who have been chosen to break the color barriers. Covering events from the beginning of the scholastic year to the graduation exercises, the film is based on the journals of Central High teacher/administrator Elizabeth Hucksby, who is here played by Joanne Woodward. Adapted (with precisely no political axes to grind) by Richard Levinson and William Link, Crisis at Central High made its triumphant debut on February 4, 1981. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Charles Durning
- Tony Frank - Hildebrand
- Irma P. Hall - Lulu Richards
- Rosanna Huffman - Mrs. Farrow
- Ray LePere - George Truitt
- William Russ
- Regina Taylor
- Joanne Woodward
- Norma Young - Miss Opie
- Shannon John - Donna Kirby
- Riona Martin - Carlotta Walls
- Bonnie Pemberton - Maggie Armstrong
- Henderson Forsythe
- John Galt - Mr. Kirby
- Jerry Haynes - General
- Suzie Humphreys - Mrs. Kirby
- Calvin Levels
- Tamu - Caroline Fuller
- Annabelle Weenick - Dorothy Truitt
- Robert A. Ginnaven - Gen. Thomas Woods
- Lori Grupe - Marlene
- Pat Long - Billie Hobbs
- Bill Moray - Virgil Blossom
- Nina Wilson - Miss Pettijohn
- Director(s):
- Lamont Johnson
- Writer(s):
- Richard A. Levinson, William Link
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