The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
- Director(s):
- Marvin J. Chomsky
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Mark Harmon stars as baby-faced serial killer Ted Bundy in this sobering 2-part TV movie. Ostensibly the archetypal All-American boy, Bundy was, from 1974 onward, responsible for the rapes and murders of several young women in the Pacific Northwest. The clues begin to mount when one of Bundy's victims manages to escape; she can only say that her assailant was a fellow named Ted who drives a yellow Volkswagen. Finally arrested after he moves from Seattle to Utah, Bundy is so certain of his superiority over the general run of human beings that he conducts his own defense at his trial; then, when extradited to Colorado, he escapes, triggering a desperate nationwide manhunt. At the time Deliberate Stranger was first telecast on May 5 and 6, 1986, Theodore Bundy was on Death Row, still contesting his sentence and seeking a legal way out. When time came for his execution, Bundy attempted several bizarre last-minute "stays," which would make intriguing subject matter should someone want to make a follow-up film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Starr Andreeff - Jane Maxwell
- John Ashton - Detective Roger Dunn
- William Boyett - Aspen Detective
- Joshua Bryant - Prosecutor
- Cecile Callan
- Tom Dahlgren
- Steve Eastin
- Frederic Forrest - Detective Bob Keppel
- Deborah Goodrich - Martha Chambers
- Frank Hamilton
- Chip Heller
- Michael Laurence
- Emily Longstreth - Susan Delgato
- Macon McCalman - Larsen's Editor
- Dick McGarvin
- Lawrence Pressman - Ken Wolverton
- Maggie Roswell
- Kevin Scannell
- Greg Stuart
- M. Emmet Walsh - Detective Sam Davies
- Rita Zohar - Eleanor Rose
- Julie Philips
- Will Jeffries
- Dan Chambers
- Molly Fontaine - Joann Baker
- Jill Andre
- Mark Harmon - Ted Bundy
- Jeanetta Arnette - Barbara
- Conrad Bachmann
- Maia Brewton
- Billy Green Bush - Officer Bradley - Provo Detective
- Frederick Coffin - Jerry Thompson
- Rad Daly
- Terry Farrell
- Timothy Gibbs - John
- George Grizzard - Richard Larsen
- Eric Hart
- Virginia Kiser
- Rick Lieberman
- Ben Masters - Detective Mike Fisher
- Tom McFadden
- Harry Northrup
- Jack Rader
- Ann Ryerson - Mrs. Hargreaves
- Sheri Stoner
- Joe Unger
- Elaine Wilkes - Lisa Rutledge
- Fred Lerner
- Leilani Sarelle
- Robert Balderson
- Roger Hampton
- Peter Vogt
- Bonnie Bartlett - Louise Bundy
- Glynnis O'Connor - Cas Richter
- Director(s):
- Marvin J. Chomsky
- Writer(s):
- Hesper Anderson
- Producer(s):
- Marvin J. Chomsky
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