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The Law (1974 film)

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The Law
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Genre	Crime Drama
Written by	Joel Oliansky (story, teleplay) William Sackheim (story)
Directed by	John Badham
Starring	Judd Hirsch John Beck
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	William Sackheim Michael Rhodes
Cinematography	Michael D. Margulies
Editor	Frank Morriss
Running time	124 minutes
Production company	Universal Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	October 22, 1974 (1974-10-22)

The Law is a 1974 Universal Television made-for-television film directed by John Badham starring Judd Hirsch as defense attorney Murray Stone with John Beck, Bonnie Franklin and Gary Busey.^[1]

Plot[edit]

The workings of a big city's legal system are seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.

Cast[edit]

Judd Hirsch as Murray Stone

John Beck as Gene Carey

Bonnie Franklin as Bobbie Stone

Barbara Baxley as Judge Rebeccah Fornier

Sam Wanamaker as Jules Benson

Allan Arbus as Leonard Caporni

John Hillerman as Thomas Q. Rachel

Gary Busey as William Bright

Gerald Hiken as Judge Arnold Lerner

Michael Bell as Cliff Wilson

Herbert Jefferson Jr. as Maxwell Fall

Frank Marth as Arthur Winchell

John Sylvester White as Judge Philip Shields

Robert Q. Lewis as Speaker at Bar Dinner

Logan Ramsey as Raymond Bleisch

Sandy Ward as Hoak

George Wyner as Deputy D.A. Piper

Ernie Anderson as Barry Hale - TV News Anchor

Reb Brown as Tommy Cicero

Dennis Burkley as Monty Leese

Don Calfa as Rod Brainard

Helen Page Camp as Mrs. Bright

Alex Colon as Felix Esquivel

Regis Cordic as Raymond Churchill

Ted Gehring as Detective Sargeant Manfred

Corey Fischer as Nicholson

Pamela Hensley as Cindy Best

Milt Kogan as Detective Milt Vinton

Luis Moreno as Melendez

Joel Oliansky as Wystan Lanier

Eugene Peterson as Leon Zuckerwaar

Anne Ramsey as Eleanor Bleisch

Brad Sullivan as Officer Newberg

Keith Walker as Dwight Healy

Charlie White as Gordon Riefler

Alex Wilson as Mrozek

Henry Brown as Reynaldo Williams

1975 miniseries[edit]

A 1975 TV miniseries of three further hour-long episodes was created for Hirsch's character, each directed by writer Joel Oliansky:

"Complaint Amended", March 19, 1975
"Prior Consent", March 26, 1975
"Special Circumstances", April 16, 1975

References[edit]

^ Terry White Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and ...- 2003 0313303010 "Oliansky, Joel, and William Sackheim. The Law. ... Oliansky and Sackheim collaborated on the original story from an original idea. (See the ... Judd Hirsch (as the criminal defense attorney), John Beck, Bonnie Franklin, and Gary Busey."

External links[edit]

The LawatIMDb (1974 TV movie)
The LawatIMDb (1975 TV miniseries)

Films directed by John Badham

Feature films

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Dracula (1979)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Blue Thunder (1983)
WarGames (1983)
American Flyers (1985)
Short Circuit (1986)
Stakeout (1987)
Bird on a Wire (1990)
The Hard Way (1991)
Point of No Return (1993)
Another Stakeout (1993)
Drop Zone (1994)
Nick of Time (1995)
Incognito (1997)

Television films

Isn't It Shocking? (1973)
The Law (1974)
The Gun (1974)
Reflections of Murder (1974)
The Jack Bull (1999)
The Last Debate (2000)
Brother's Keeper (2002)
Footsteps (2003)
Evel Knievel (2004)

Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama

1960s

William Spier for "The Unhired Assassin" (1960)
Barry Trivers for "The Fault in Our Stars" (1961)
Howard A. Rodman and Kenneth M. Rosen for "Today the Man Who Kills The Ants is Coming" (1962)
Lawrence B. Marcus for "Man Out of Time" (1963)
Arnold Perl for "Who Do You Kill?" (1964)
John D. F. Black for "With a Hammer in His Hand, Lord, Lord!" (1965)
David Ellis for "No Justice for the Judge" (1966)
Harlan Ellison for "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967)
Robert Lewin for "To Kill a Madman" (1968)
Robert Lewin for "An Elephant in a Cigar Box" (1969)

1970s

David W. Rintels for "A Continual Roar of Musketry" (1970)
Herb Bermann & Thomas Y. Drake & Jerrold Freedman & Bo May for "Par for the Course" (1971)
Herman Miller for "King of the Mountain" (1972)
Harlan Ellison for "Phoenix Without Ashes" (1973)
Jim Byrnes for "Thirty a Month and Found" (1974)
Stephen Kandel & Arthur Ross for "Prior Consent" (1975)
Loring Mandel for "Crossing Fox River" (1976)
Mark Rodgers for "Pressure Point" (1977)
Seth Freeman for "Prisoner" (1978)
Leon Tokatyan for "Vet" (1979)

1980s

Stephen J. Cannell for "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" (1980)
Steven Bochco & Michael Kozoll for "Hill Street Station" (1981)
Michael Wagner for "The World According to Freedom" (1982)
David Milch for "Trial By Fury" (1983)
Steven Bochco & Mark Frost & Karen Hall & Jeff Lewis & David Milch & Michael Wagner for "Grace Under Pressure" (1984)
Georgia Jeffries for "An Unusual Occurrence" / Anthony Yerkovich for "Brother's Keeper" (1985)
Debra Frank & Carl Sautter for "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" / Tom Fontana & John Masius & Bruce Paltrow for "Remembrance of Things Past" (1986)
Georgia Jeffries for "Turn, Turn, Turn" / Debra Frank & Carl Sautter for "It's a Wonderful Job" (1987)
Susan Shilliday for "Therapy" / Marshall Herskovitz & Edward Zwick for "Pilot" (thirtysomething) (1988)
Karl Schaefer for "Rolling" (1989)

1990s

John Sacret Young for "Souvenirs" (1990)
Racelle Rosett Schaefer for "Photo Opportunity" (1991)
Henry Bromell for "Amazing Grace" (1992)
Tom Fontana & Frank Pugliese for "The Night of the Dead Living" (1993)
Tom Fontana & David Mills & David Simon for "Bop Gun" (1994)
Lance Gentile for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995)
Bill Clark & Theresa Rebeck for "Girl Talk" (1996)
René Balcer & Richard Sweren for "Entrapment" (1997)
Bill Cain for "Proofs for the Existence Of God" (1998)
Jason Cahill for "Meadowlands" (1999)

2000s

Rick Cleveland and Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000)
Tim Van Patten and Terence Winter for "Pine Barrens" (2001)
Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin for "Pilot" (The Education of Max Bickford) (2002)
Evan Katz for『Day 2: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.』(2003)
Debora Cahn for "The Supremes" (2004)
Lawrence Kaplow for "Autopsy" (2005)
Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer for "Pilot" (Big Love) (2006)
Terence Winter for "The Second Coming" (2007)
Vince Gilligan for "Pilot" (Breaking Bad) (2008)
David Foster, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, and David Shore for "Broken" (2009)

2010s

Erin Levy for "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" (2010)
Vince Gilligan for "Box Cutter" / Henry Bromell for "The Good Soldier" (2011)
Semi Chellas & Matthew Weiner for "The Other Woman" (2012)
Gennifer Hutchison for "Confessions" (2013)
Robert King & Michelle King for "The Last Call" (2014)
Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould for "Uno" (2015)
Vera Herbert for "The Trip" (2016)
Gordon Smith for "Chicanery" (2017)
Alex Gansa for "Paean to the People" (2018)
Will Tracy for "Tern Haven" (2019)

2020s

Miki Johnson for "Fire Pink" (2020)
Tony Roche and Susan Soon He Stanton for "Retired Janitors of Idaho" (2021)
Thomas Schnauz for "Plan and Execution" (2022)
Georgia Pritchett and Will Arbery for "Living+" (2023)

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