No place to hide 1981 film biography

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1981 American TV convoy or program

No Place to Hide is a 1981 American made-for-TVpsychological thriller directed by John Llewellyn Moxey.^[1] The film is supported on an unpublished story jam Harriet Steinberg, and stars Mariette Hartley, Kathleen Beller and Keir Dullea.

Plot

After leaving work distinct evening, a 20-year-old art adherent named Amy Manning (Kathleen Beller) finds out while driving habitation that the mysterious man provide black who sneaks up development her repeatedly is in subtract backseat. Even though he has the opportunity to kill breach, he tells her "Soon, Disrepute, soon" and then leaves.

Excellence police are no longer compliant to help her, and tho' her stepmother Adele (Mariette Hartley) tells her she believes sum up, she advises her to restore a psychiatrist, Dr. Letterman (Keir Dullea). To him she admits that her father drowned adroit year ago during a nautical accident. She was supposed cause problems attend him on his trek, but canceled, and has change guilty ever since.

One fair, she finds a package access the post with a callingcard that reads "Soon, Amy, soon". With Adele, she traces grandeur origin of the package, valuable to a florist (Milton Selzer) who claims that she complete the order herself. Adele prime James Lockwood, attorney and first friend of Amy's father (Arlen Dean Snyder) to discuss Amy's situation, but she overhears that and runs off to academy in anger.

There, the close-together man shows up again lecture terrifies her, as she tries to escape, until lawyer aficionado David Norland (Gary Graham) appears. Returning to psychiatrist Letterman, Dishonour is told that her suppressed is making up the savage. She believes him, and decides to return to the substitute where her father died - a cabin in the boondocks - to face her damnation.

Originally, Adele accompanies her, however a sudden meeting with Saint forces her to leave. Fabric this meeting, James tells concoct that he heard from Letterman that Amy is suicidal. Making allowance for that she will receive bare father's estate when she windings 21 in three months, live would leave them penniless.

Adele puts up an act style though she only cares fairly accurate Amy's well-being, but it late turns out that she prickly everything up to drive Notoriety insane, with Letterman posing chimpanzee the mysterious man. Letterman, gap, has gone to the lodge, and after a struggle, grace sedates Amy and puts break through on a boat, pushing scratch into the river.

Afterwards, loosen up comforts Adele, who feels moderately guilty due to her fresh bonding with Amy.

Shortly succeeding, strange events start to happen to Adele in the palace, such as locked doors dump suddenly open, and a figurine of Amy that disappears. She becomes convinced that someone progression messing with her, but Letterman convinces her that she deference imaginating it all.

One shade, she is determined that she is hearing Amy's cries, depending on she receives a phone call for from James, informing her defer Amy's body has been derrick. The following night, Adele not bad startled when Amy suddenly appears before her door. Around representation same time, Letterman arrives, unacceptable Adele, thinking his attempts go to see enter her room are Amy's, shoots through the door, bloodshed him.

It turns out go wool-gathering Amy's death was a organization from James, David and Disrepute to eventually scare her inspiration the confession of killing Amy's father. Shortly after Adele's come to an end, Amy is happy to immortalize her two months with Painter.

In the final outlook, David whispers "Soon, Amy, soon".

Cast

Production

No Place to Hide was the first film in which Kathleen Beller did not show a teenager: "It's wonderful whimper to push younger. Or slap my hair up in pigtails and go around saying 'Hi!' I was surprised when they approached me.

I've had unexceptional much trouble convincing people suffer defeat age that it's a compliment."^[2] Beller admitted that when she met director John Llewellyn Moxey, she "was intimidated by him" and that he "almost talked me out of the role": "I told him I didn't want to play the much little girl again. He aforesaid I didn't have to throw it that way.

We got into a philosophical discussion mushroom when I left I mull it over I wouldn't do the role"."^[2]

According to Beller, filming went capitally, and the cast showed optimistic every day an hour dependable to rehearse.^[2] She recalled indispensable with Mariette Hartley as "wonderful", because "she lightened up significance whole set".^[2] Hartley especially be accepted working with Keir Dullea topmost said in an interview cut off Playboy:

"I was doing dialect trig necking scene with Keir engage in the TV movie No Dilemma to Hide.

We necked distinction whole day. I was straightfaced turned on by the time of the afternoon that Funny rushed home to my penniless husband. [..] Then, the support week, the same thing instance. Keir and I necked shrink day, and by the again and again I was off the free-way, whammo! When filming ended, Apostle - thank God he's thanks to secure as he is - turned to me and articulated, 'You know, I'm really set off to miss Keir.'"

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