The Executioner's Song
The story of two people who fell in love.....and kept on falling.
Overview
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
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- Film Communications Inc.
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Cast
Tommy Lee Jones
Gary Mark Gilmore
Christine Lahti
Brenda Nicol
Rosanna Arquette
Nicole Baker
Eli Wallach
Vern Damico
Steven Keats
Larry Samuels
Richard Venture
Earl Dorius
Jenny Wright
April Baker
Pat Corley
Val Conlan
Walter Olkewicz
Pete Galovan
Jim Youngs
Sterling Baker
Grace Zabriskie
Kathryne Baker
John Chappell
Ron Stanger
Rance Howard
Lt. Nelson
Charles Cyphers
Noall Wootton
Bruce Newbold
Max Jensen
Crew
- Director
- Lawrence Schiller
- Writers
- Norman Mailer
- Cinematography
- Freddie Francis
- Composer
- John Cacavas
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CinemaSerf
May 29, 2023
t was always going to be a challenge to dramatise this Norman Mailer book. It is a complex and intricate story of ex-con "Gary Gilmore" (Tommy Lee Jones) who is released back into society after serving a sentence for armed robbery. He quickly meets Nicole (Rosanna Arquette) with whom he has a child, before that all goes wrong and his life spirals out of control again. Determined to buy a white pick up truck from a local dealer, he turns to robbery to fund this - needlessly killing two men as he …