Fear on Trial
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Lamont Johnson
Paul Jenkins
John Houseman
David Susskind
John Lehne
Alan Rachins
Film Details
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Synopsis
This Emmy-nominated film follows the troubles stalking John Henry Faulk, a folksy, homespun radio-television personality of the early 1950s whose broadcasting career was abruptly cut off during the blacklisting of the era. Retaining attorney Louis Nizer, he went to court and successfully sued for libel, obtaining a $3,500,000 judgment, although he never again came back to network radio or television. The character portrayed by Lois Nettleton actually was Kim Hunter, the actress and fellow blacklistee, who refused to allow her name to be used in this teleplay, for which David Rintels won an Emmy. William Devane, Lois Nettleton and director Lamont Johnson were also nominated. Geller, the creator and developer of such TV series as "Mission: Impossible" and "Mannix," played the role of his father, the presiding judge at the trial of Faulk vs. Aware, Inc.
Director
Lamont Johnson
Cast
Paul Jenkins
John Houseman
David Susskind
John Lehne
Alan Rachins
Kim Webster
William Redfield
Allan Miller
Manuel Depina
Alice Backes
Maxine Cooper
Clifford David
John Mcmartin
Judd Hirsch
William Hellinger
Mary Alan Hokanson
Madeline Lee
Susan Kirschner
Sean Peters
Dorothy Rice
Thomas Duncan
Nicholas Pryor
Dorothy Tristan
John Lasell
Paul Hecht
Lois Nettleton
John Harkins
Ben Piazza
Irene Robinson
John M Reed
Milt Kogan
William Devane
George C Scott
William Traylor
Bruce Geller
Mona Bruns
Mark Goodson
Crew
Tom Bronson
Wilmer Butler
Stanley Chase
John Henry Faulk
Alan Landsburg
John J. Lloyd
William Loos
David Rintels
Tom Rolf
Laurence D Savadove
Don Sullivan
Jack Tillar
Film Details
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Aired in United States October 2, 1975
