Pueblo (1973)
- Director(s):
- Anthony Page
Synopsis of Pueblo
Pueblo is a 2-hour videotaped special, originally telecast March 29, 1973 on ABC Theatre. Hal Holbrook stars as commander Lloyd M. Bucher, who in January of 1968 was forced to surrender the USS Pueblo to North Korea. The drama is staged in an impressionistic manner, with dramatized transcripts from Bucher's subsequent Naval Review Board testimony flashing back to isolated moments of terror and torment during the Pueblo crew's 11-month sojourn in a North Korean prison camp. Despite network restrictions of the era, Pueblo is refreshingly frank, right down to the first-ever TV display of a familiar obscene gesture (which the American prisoners explain away to their captors as a "salute"!) Written by Stanley R. Greenberg, Pueblo was later adapted to a stage play, starring Shepperd Strudwick as Bucher. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Pueblo
- Hal Holbrook - Captain Bucher
- Andrew Duggan - Congressman
- Mary Fickett
- George Grizzard - Court Counsel
- Richard Herd - Lt. Commander C. Clark
- Earl Hindman - QMT C.B. Law
- David Huffman - Seaman
- Robert Ito - North Korean Negotiator
- Harvey Keitel - Seaman (uncredited extra)
- Gary Merrill - Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
- Addison Powell - Commissioning Officer
- Philip Sterling - Court of Inquiry Member
- Peter Masterson - ENC M.O. Goldman
- Lenny Baker - Ensign T.L. Harris
- Don Blakely - BM3 W.C. Bussell
- Ronny Cox - Signalman
- Stephen Elliott - Rear Admiral F.L. Johnson
- Larry Gates - American Negotiator
- Paul Hecht - Lt. S.R. Harris
- Alan Hewitt - Congressional Chairman
- John Horn - CIC J.F. Kell
- Barnard Hughes - Secretary of the Navy
- Calvin Jung - North Korean Guard
- Alan Koss - HCI H.P. Baldridge
- Richard Mulligan - CWO G.H. Lacy
- John Randolph - Lt. General S.J. McKee
- James Hong - Super C
- Darryl Wells - Lt. jg F.C. Schumaker
- Ralph Bell - Presiding Officer
- Director(s):
- Anthony Page
- Producer(s):
- Robert Berger
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