Delancey Street: The Crisis Within (1975)
- Director(s):
- James Frawley
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San Francisco's Delancey Street is the locale of a halfway house for ex-convicts, former drug users, and other society castaways. The founder of this operation is himself a paroled convict (Walter McGinn), who hopes to help others get back on their feet as he has. His touchiest assignment is the regeneration of a 56-year-old man who has just spent 36 years in the slammer for murder. This TV movie was the pilot for an unsold series based on the real-life activities of ex-con Joseph Maher, who in his heyday was a favorite subject of several TV newsmagazines. Sadly, the semi-happy ending of Delancey Street was not borne out in real life: Joseph Maher lapsed into alcoholism in the early 1980s, was forced out of his own rehab program, and died in poverty in 1988. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Walter McGinn - John McCann
- Carmine Caridi - Joe
- Anthony Charnota - Tony
- Joe Flaherty - George Miles
- Louis Gossett, Jr. - Otis James
- James Jeter - 2nd Guard
- Jeril Woods - Suzie Franklin
- John S. Ragin - Jeff Donaldson
- Sylvia Soares - Ruby James
- Bill Toliver - T.D.
- Barbara Bostock - Mrs. Donaldson
- Barbara Cason - Ms. Sommerville
- Hector Elias - Rudolfo
- Leigh French - Mary
- Mark Hamill - Philip Donaldson
- John Karlen - Richard Copell
- David Moody - Slim Jim
- Michael Conrad - Robert John Holtzman
- Bart Cardinelli - Dixon
- M.P. Murphy - Detective
- Director(s):
- James Frawley
- Writer(s):
- Robert Foster
- Producer(s):
- Anthony Wilson
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