Flamingo Road (1980)
- Director(s):
- Gus Trikonis
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Ever anxious to enter the "nighttime serial" market engendered by Dallas, NBC commissioned Flamingo Road, a casual remake of the 1949 Joan Crawford film of the same name. The TV-movie pilot, which aired in May of 1980, introduces the dramatiis personae. Howard Duff plays the corrupt political boss of a small Florida town (a role originated by Sidney Greenstreet in 1949). Cristina Raines is the Crawford counterpart, a faded nightclub singer who wanders into Duff's town and upsets the political and social apple cart by shacking up with a local contract (John Beck). Duff tries to destroy Raines by dredging up her past, to no avail. When Flamingo Road became a series in 1981, it manage to hang by its fingertips in the ratings for eighteen months. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- John Beck - Sam Curtis
- Cristina Raines - Lane Ballou
- Woody Brown
- Morgan Fairchild - Constance Semple
- Diane Kay
- Kevin McCarthy - Claude Weldon
- Howard Duff - Titus Semple
- Mason Adams
- Barbara Rush - Eudora Weldon
- Mark Harmon - Fielding Carlyle
- Melba Moore
- Stella Stevens - Luta-Mae Sanders
- Director(s):
- Gus Trikonis
- Writer(s):
- Rita Lakin
- Producer(s):
- Ed Feldman
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